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The article focuses on Mexican nationals and consuls residing in the U.S. and how they worked together to navigate the U.S. immigration laws of 1917, 1924, and 1929 during the Great Depression. It notes that consular officials, under the direction of Mexico's Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE), collaborated with various entities including migrant organizations and Spanish-language newspapers to disseminate knowledge about repatriation and immigration laws and helped Mexicans acquire specific documents to facilitate their return to Mexico and future reentry to the U.S.

The Newsbank website is a paid subscription for American State Papers from 1789-1838. Designed and maintained by Readex, a Newsbank , Inc. division, the website tagged and indexed all papers into 18 broad categories for faster searching. This will be most useful for high school or college students.

The Thomas A. Edison Papers web site found at the Rutgers University web site is extremely useful to historians and other research professions. The over 180,000 records are difficult to navigate using its complicated search engine.