1954 "Operation Wetback". Bit of history.
"Operation Wetback was a 1954 operation by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to remove about one million illegal immigrants from the southwestern United States, focusing on Mexican nationals.
The effort began in California and Arizona, and coordinated 1075 Border Patrol agents, along with state and local police agencies, to mount an aggressive crackdown. Tactics employed included going as far as systematic police sweeps of Mexican-American neighborhoods, and random stops and ID checks of "Mexican-looking" people in a region with many Native Americans and native Hispanics. In some cases, illegal aliens were deported along with their American-born children. Some 750 agents targeted agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions per day. By the end of July, over 50,000 illegal aliens were caught in the two states. An estimated 488,000 illegal immigrants are claimed to have left voluntarily, for fear of being apprehended. By September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and the INS estimated that 500,000 to 700,000 had left Texas of their own accord. To discourage illicit re-entry, buses and trains took many deportees deep within Mexican territory prior to releasing them. Tens of thousands more were deported by two chartered ships, the Emancipation and the Mercurio. The ships ferried them from Port Isabel, Texas, to Veracruz, Mexico, more than 500 miles (800 kilometers) to the south. Some were taken as far as 1,000 miles. Deportation by sea was ended after seven deportees jumped overboard from the Mercurio and drowned, provoking a mutiny that led to a public outcry in Mexico."
This was all done by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. They deported mass illegals at a dirt cheap price in comparison. No huge civil cases involved just crackdowns and if no papers your deported end of story. If illegals had children in the US they were deported along with the parents even if born on American Soil.
Sounding like this is what we need today. No civil rights, no judicial trial, have your papers or get deported as far south as possible by any means necessary. We did it before, why not again. Instead now it costs upwards of $6k per illegal to be deported because of all the extra crap we go through.
Maybe its time we remind America that we've done it in the past and it worked and held up, we can do it again. Crack down hard on the border states while we start ramping up for other states. After seeing mass deportions on the border states hopefully rest will willingly leave vs crackdowns that would be very harsh.
Re: 1954 "Operation Wetback". Bit of history.
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Originally Posted by Syanis
To discourage illicit re-entry, buses and trains took many deportees deep within Mexican territory prior to releasing them. Tens of thousands more were deported by two chartered ships, the Emancipation and the Mercurio. The ships ferried them from Port Isabel, Texas, to Veracruz, Mexico, more than 500 miles (800 kilometers) to the south. Some were taken as far as 1,000 miles.
IMO that was the key element. Leaving people to spend a night in a border town isn't accomplishing anything.
Re: 1954 "Operation Wetback". Bit of history.
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Originally Posted by vistalad
IMO that was the key element. Leaving people to spend a night in a border town isn't accomplishing anything.
Yup but if the border was secured properly it wouldn't be such a huge issue not having to take them too far. But theres only 1 way I can come up with to secure the border and thats with the military which is a hot debate.
