| Summary: | Documentary film produced with a grant from Detroit 300 in 2000. Interviews by the Los Repatriados Committee (descendants or relatives) with elders and descendants of 10 of the original Mexican and Mexican-American families, who emigrated from San Luis Potosí and Aguas Calientes, Mexico to Detroit [and other cities] in Michigan between 1920 and 1930. During the period of Repatriation (1929-1939), an estimated 15,000 individuals were forced or voluntarily went to Mexico at the behest of the U.S. government; 60% of these families were U.S. citizens. During World War II, a wave of immigration brought many back to the U.S. only to find out then that they were already U.S. citizens.
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