Posted on 08/23/2015 3:33:06 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico
By John Dillin JULY 6, 2006
Save for later WASHINGTON — George W. Bush isn't the first Republican president to face a full-blown immigration crisis on the US-Mexican border. Fifty-three years ago, when newly elected Dwight Eisenhower moved into the White House, America's southern frontier was as porous as a spaghetti sieve. As many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period of several years for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and points beyond. President Eisenhower cut off this illegal traffic. He did it quickly and decisively with only 1,075 United States Border Patrol agents – less than one-tenth of today's force. The operation is still highly praised among veterans of the Border Patrol.
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We can do it, and it's not as hard as they make it out to be.
Wouldn’t it be easier and cheaper to seriously penalize employers hiring illegals? Drying up employment prospects should incentivize illegals to go back home.
As long as you’re willing to jail all the politicians that incentivize them to come here also.
Good article. They sent them back on a boat trip 500 to Veracruz 500 miles into Mexico. It was not a pleasant trip. The guest worker program was for 400,000 Mexicans a year with up to only 12 to 52 weeks.
According to this article 85% of the Mexicans here are illegal.
Eisenhower moved entrenched immigration officials, the ones who were influenced by border ranchers and farmers inland, where they could have be influenced by corrupt officials.
“Years later, the late Herbert Brownell Jr., Eisenhower’s first attorney general, said in an interview with this writer that the president had a sense of urgency about illegal immigration when he took office.
America “was faced with a breakdown in law enforcement on a very large scale,” Mr. Brownell said. “When I say large scale, I mean hundreds of thousands were coming in from Mexico [every year] without restraint.””
We could do three things if we have the courage.
Enforcement, deportation, remove the lure.
Just put the word out that Planned Parenthood will abort any anchor babies and sell their parts and see if that stuns the liberals.
Simultaneously bring V Corp home from Germany. Give the CG, the mission of securing the Southern border. We'd be saving money in the long run having our soldiers here rather than overseas.
Also those troops would be spending their pay here.
Turning employers into law enforcement officers is bogus, particularly with all the fake ID that's out there.
There's a better way to round up illegals: a bounty system with heavy penalties for false arrest or harassment. Add bonuses for arresting coyotes and drug runners. Just put the training materials and applicable laws on a web site and set up test centers in strip malls by which to earn a credential and deputize prospective bounty hunters upon completion. The program would be Constitutional as equivalent to a letter of marque and reprisal, with legal action extending even onto Mexican territory.
So the solution is already in place.
We just don’t have the cajones to implement it.
And campaigning against those knowingly employing illegals is, how you say, vote-getting averse.
“Wouldn’t it be easier and cheaper to seriously penalize employers hiring illegals?
That should be part of it. Enforce current law. Imagine a business owner and its managers going to jail and being fined thousands of dollars, their business and stores being taken under RICO and sold at auction. Imagine they did this in front of TV cameras.
This country wouldn’t have an illegal alien capable of a job anywhere.
I agree. It would be a cascade effect.
Bust a few big ones and watch the others start cleaning up their acts.
“Some 750 agents swept northward through agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day. By the end of July, over 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states. Another 488,000, fearing arrest, had fled the country.”
Wow! Most of them self-deported!
I wish I could “post reply” this to every freeper.
That happens every bloody time we enforce the laws. Just see the example of Arizona, until the Feds stepped in to put a stop to it.
You’re right. It’s not as hard as many are making it out to be.
The rank-and-file American was a different breed in Eisenhower’s day.
But hopefully a President Trump will finance some backbones and a new transmission for the masses - and Congress. It’s amazing (and disheartening) how so many hear the words ‘it can’t be done’ and just accept it as truth.
You’re right. It’s not as hard as many are making it out to be.
The rank-and-file American was a different breed in Eisenhower’s day.
But hopefully a President Trump will finance some backbones and a new transmission for the masses - and Congress. It’s amazing (and disheartening) how so many hear the words ‘it can’t be done’ and just accept it as truth.
Operation Wetback.
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