Los Angeles Times: An exhibition created with Dolores Huerta traces U.S. deportation history

A new bilingual exhibition at Sacramento’s California Museum traces a century of U.S. deportation campaigns targeting Mexican workers, even as their labor powered farms, railroads and wartime industry.

Isa Farfan, Los Angeles Times
August 13, 2026

Nearly six months after Dolores Huerta went public with sexual abuse allegations against former labor leader Cesar Chavez, with whom she co-founded United Farmworkers, the 96-year-old activist said she’s prioritized involving herself in labor and women’s rights.

Part of that work is now on view at the California Museum in Sacramento in an exhibition called “Help Wanted/Leave Now: ‘Operation Wetback’ and the Revolving Door of Mass Deportation,” which examines decades of the federal government’s deportation campaigns against Mexican immigrants even while it recruited millions of these farmworkers and rail workers to fill labor shortages during and after World War II.

The show opened last week and runs through Jan. 10 in Sacramento, with plans then to travel to other institutions. It was developed with guidance from an advisory board that included Huerta, academics and other experts on immigration history.

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