Photos:: Historical photos of 1950s mass deportations in Southern California

June 17, 1954: Ed Parker, chief patrol inspector for the border patrol, with map in center, gives agents their assignments.

June 17, 1954: Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies search men picked up in East Los Angeles.

June 18, 1954: Immigration inspectors place detained Mexican nationals on a detention bus at Ford and Whittier boulevards in East Los Angeles, before taking them to the main detention center in Elysian Park.

June 17, 1954: People taken to the Recreation Center in Elysian Park await processing for their return to Mexico. About 300 were in the group rounded up that morning.

June 17, 1954: Mrs. Rosario Martinez, 18, holds 10-month-old daughter Sandra, as she awaits trip to the Elysian Park detention center. Her husband, Manuel, 24, was also detained. This photo was published on the front page of the June 17, 1954, Los Angeles Times.

June 18, 1954: Alejandro Jauregui, 22, is flushed from his rooftop hiding place by U.S. Immigration Officer S. T. Chandler. This photo was published in the June 19, 1954, Los Angeles Times.

June 18, 1954. Mexican nationals are marched through Calexico after being rounded up. This photo was published in the June 21, 1954, Los Angeles Times.

June 17, 1954: Mexican nationals enter El Centro border patrol compound prior to deportation. This photo was published in the June 18, 1954, Los Angeles Times.

June 19, 1954: Buses, filled with people caught in raids, wait in Nogales, Ariz., before crossing the border into Mexico. This photo was published in the June 20, 1954, Los Angeles Times.

June 19, 1954: People climb aboard trains for the trip through Mexico. This photo was published in the June 21, 1954, Los Angeles Times.

June 19, 1954: Juan Martinez, standing, changes U.S. money into Mexican currency for Refugio Martinez, about to be deported, as Officer Miguel Corona looks on in Nogales, Ariz. This photo was published in the June 20, 1954, Los Angeles Times.