A bill making its way through the California state Legislature would commemorate a little-known chapter of US history: a large-scale deportation of Mexicans — and Mexican Americans — nearly a century ago. And the bill’s backers say it’s all the more relevant in this election year when mass deportation is again a political topic. From KQED in San Francisco, Tyche Hendricks reports.
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