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Donald Trump reacts during Republican presidential debate at Milwaukee Theatre, Tuesday, November 10, 2015, in Milwaukee. “Moved 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country, moved them just beyond the border”. He promised to build a wall along the almost 2,000 mile border and to make Mexico pay for it. He also once more committed to rounding up and deporting all illegal immigrants.
But the real estate mogul’s account of the operation glosses over the significant criticism the program received. Now that the war was over, there was no longer a need for the workers. “I wouldn’t use the term”, Trump responded, alluding to the program’s title, “Operation Wetback”. Carried out in peak summer months when temperatures touched 125 degrees, the mass deportation program resulted in almost a hundred deaths from heat stroke and massive abuses of human rights.
“The (U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service) claimed as many as 1.3 million, though the number officially apprehended did not come anywhere near this total”, according to the Texas State Historical Association’s online handbook, produced in partnership with the University of Texas at Austin.
The case of California is a good example. The other Republican candidates say it can’t be done – one called it a “silly argument”. It means that we have bought more goods from Mexico than sold to them. What he did was lay out his warm feelings for the gist of the program. “The stuff they did was really brutal, it could never happen today”. The immigrants, mostly Mexican though a few were USA citizens of Mexican descent, were usually rounded up and shipped south on cargo boats. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us.
“Operation Wetback, a national reaction against illegal immigration, began in Texas in mid-July 1954”.
But attempts to relocate people to the Mexican interior did not always stop them from returning to the United States, Mitchell said.
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Trump’s deportation plan definitely isn’t a new one – he has been alluding to his affinity for Eisenhower’s methods for a while. The guest worker program ended in 1965.
Trump couldn’t have said it any better. Most of the people who were deported were just sent to random places where they didn’t know anyone and had no way of getting back to, or in touch with, their families – often with no way of getting their property back from the U.S. Sometimes they just left them in the desert to die.
Though Trump extolled the program’s praises on the GOP debate, he didn’t call “Operation Wetback” by name.
Hillary Clinton posted posted on Twitter, “The idea of tracking down and deporting 11 million people is absurd, inhumane, and un-American”.
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Also, it wasn’t just a deportation program. The combination of a legal migration pathway with consequences for breaking immigration laws incentivized Mexican migrants to come legally.
