Trump’s Model For Immigration Is ‘Operation Wetback’
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Donald Trump’s immigration plan would be a throwback to a1950’s plan of mass deportation called “Operation Wetback“.
In his recent interview with Scott Pelley of “60 Minutes” the leading Republican candidate for President compared his plan to President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1954 mass deportation round-up that expelled one million immigrants and some of their families to Mexico, a plan known by the horribly offensive name, “Operation Wetback.”
Trump, of course, didn’t dare mention Eisenhower’s program by name during the televised interview, but the references were crystal clear…
According to the Washington Post, Eisenhower’s “Operation Wetback” not only rounded up one million immigrants from their homes, workplaces, and communities for deportation, but also an unknown number of U.S. citizens, too, something Trump plans to mimic if he becomes President.
According to historians, trains and ships were used to intentionally deport immigrants “deep into the interior” of Mexico, in order to discourage them from returning to the United States and the families they oftentimes left behind.
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