Trump, a real estate billionaire who has been leading in opinion polls among candidates for the Republican nomination in the 2016 election, calls for deporting all illegal immigrants and has said he would get the Mexican government to pay for building a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border.
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But the program to which Trump refers, known as “Operation Wetback”, was a complicated undertaking largely viewed by historians as a dark moment in America’s past. “The Eisenhower mass deportation policy was tragic”.
“This represents a milestone in the immigration debate”.
Trump couldn’t have said it any better. Good president. Great president.
“On the whole, though, Trump’s comments are undoubtedly an exaggeration and a bit of a twist on the facts”, Mitchell said. “We would do it in a very humane way”, he said.
Presidential candidate Donald Trump endorsed controversial 50’s immigration policy during Republican Debate [Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images]During the Republican Debate, Trump continued to lavish praise upon the operation.
In response, Trump invoked historical precedent: “Let me just tell you that Dwight Eisenhower”.
“I have no idea where Mr. Trump thinks the money’s gonna come from”, President Obama said. I liked him. I Like Ike, right? “‘I like Ike, ‘ right?”
Trump said President Eisenhower “moved 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country”. Moved them just beyond the border, they came back. They came back. Moved them again, beyond the border, they came back.
Rather than starting with a long speech, he spent most of his time answering questions from the crowd, promising to stop illegal immigration, bring back jobs from other countries and invest in the country’s infrastructure.
“You have millions of people that are waiting in line to come into this country and they’re waiting to come in legally”. “We have no choice”.
“It’s unbelievable, but he and the people who support his attitude are more and more comfortable expressing it in different ways – with impunity”, said Rouse. At the end of the day, though, he can’t actually give them what he’s promising, and even if he could, they wouldn’t turn out the way these people are hoping. They’re sending people that have lots of problems. It is a prerogative term now used to describe all Mexican and Latino immigrants, legal or not. “They wouldn’t dare say that, but look at what they do”. When the neighborhood or the school turns Mexican, they move.
“I’m in”, Christie told The Associated Press before he headed into a packed town hall meeting in Bettendorf, Iowa.
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Youre going to have a deportation force and youre going to do it humanely, he said on Morning Joe on BC, citing deportations under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
