THE WORM IN MY TOMATO

THE WORM IN MY TOMATO
by Dr. Santos C. Vega

"By the railroad tracks of the Miami Depot;
There we stood, marked for departure.
We wept, sad to leave Miami."

During the Great Depression President Herbert Hoover authorized the deportation of more than ½ million Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in what was called "Mexican Repatriation." Santos Vega was just 6 months old in 1932 when his family boarded the the Repatriation Train at the Miami Depot. In his book, THE WORM IN MY TOMATO, author and educator Vega tells the heart-wrenching story of his own family’s “voluntary” repatriation from Miami, Arizona to rural Mexico and back.

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