“Moved a 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country, moved them just beyond the border”. Moved them again beyond the border, they came back. “He sent them way down south and they never came back”. He would likely have done himself no favors appealing to the alleged success of a program called “Operation Wetback”. Ultimately, it wasn’t even as successful as Trump claims: a few researchers consider the 1.5 million-deported figure to be highly exaggerated. Human rights were violated, people were removed to remote locations without food and water, there were many deaths, sometimes USA citizens of Hispanic origin were removed, it was bad. Under the Eisenhower program, immigrants contained in the USA have been rounded up & deported to foreign places, leading to deaths & criticism of human rights abuses.
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The GOP presidential candidate said to “round them all up in a very humane way, in a very nice way, and they’re gonna be happy, because they want to be legalized”.
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Trump was asked on Wednesday during “Morning Joe” how he would deport 11m people, and he said he would have a “deportation force” that would do it humanely.
