Posted on 11/12/2015 2:02:51 PM PST by NKP_Vet
This is not the first time the US has dealt with an illegal immigration problem. Only last time it was dealt with in a decidedly swifter and sterner manner. The response, coordinated by President Dwight Eisenhower, resulted in nearly 3 million illegal immigrants being sent home.
During his administration, Eisenhower became the first American president forced to deal with problems stemming from illegal immigration. Only, in Eisenhower s time the politically correct culture of liberal sensitivities had yet to emerge.
There was not much in the way of sympathy for those who had crossed into the country illegally.
Eisenhower told the New York Times exactly what had caused the problem: The rise in illegal border crossing by Mexicans [illegal immigrants] to a current rate of more than 1 million cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploiters of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the federal government.
Ike took quick and decisive action. He used 1,075 Border Patrol Agents to seal the border. In doing so, he achieved a task our government today deems impossible with a force that is 10% larger. Once the border was sealed, Eisenhower went about the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens.
In June of 1954, he appointed retired General Joseph Swing to head Operation Wetback, which sent local and federal officials on sweeps of Mexican neighborhoods looking for illegals.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalistpapers.org ...
Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal democrats are the lowest form of politicians. ~ GS Patton
FYI, Jim Geraghty’s answer is, “yeah, but Ike doubled the ‘bracero’ program.”
Amen, and
BTTT
Good article. I wish Trump would point out some of these things in the debates...like how illegal immigration is a national security concern, we’ve got ten times the Border Patrol agents Ike had, many illegals went home on their own once Ike started deporting, etc.
This article is very inaccurate. Ike deported 1.5 million, not 3 million. And our current border force is 20 TIMES larger, not 10% larger.
I like Ike
GO TRUMP.
Even my democrat neighbor wants a wall and deportation.
Dealing with America’s illegal alien crisis like Ike did would be difficult. There are too many traitors (called demonicrats) in the U.S. today, including in the three branches of the federal government.
I believe that Ike was expanding on what Truman had started. Truman had deported aprox 3.4 million with over 3 million of those self-deporting. Truman wanted stricter employer sanctions than what on the books at the time. Both Truman and Ike saw the future consequences of uncontrolled immigration...in this case ILLEGAL immigration.
I was a kid in NM when this happened. As I grew older I was able to understand what had happened. My best friend’s Mom and Dad were granted amnesty during that time. They had a flag pole in the front yard...with an American flag.
if we cant or wont enforce our borders, we are no longer a sovereign nation...
"Only, in Eisenhower s time the politically correct culture of liberal sensitivities constitution-ignoring state and federal politicians had yet to emerge."
There! Fixed it!
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponents Argument
Regarding federal involvement in immigration policy, please consider the following. To the best of my knowledge the states have never delegated to the corrupt feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate immigration. In fact, regardless that PC interpretations of the Constitutions ”uniform Rule of Naturalization” Clause (1.8.4) are now used to justify federal immigration laws, please consider this. Both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Madison generally regarded as the father of the Constitution, had clarified, in terms of 10th Amendment-protected state sovereignty nonetheless, that the states have never delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate immigration.
Here is the relevant excerpt from Jeffersons writings.
” 4. _Resolved_, That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that ”the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the - day of July, 1798, intituled ”An Act concerning aliens,” which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force [emphasis added].” Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions - October 1798.
And here is the related excerpt from the writings of James Madison in Virginia Resolutions.
"That the General Assembly doth particularly protest against the palpable and alarming infractions of the Constitution, in the two late cases of the ”Alien and Sedition Acts" passed at the last session of Congress; the first of which exercises a power no where delegated to the federal government, .... . .
. . . the General Assembly doth solemenly appeal to the like dispositions of the other states, in confidence that they will concur with this commonwealth in declaring, as it does hereby declare, that the acts aforesaid, are unconstitutional; and that the necessary and proper measures will be taken by each, for co-operating with this state, in maintaining the Authorities, Rights, and Liberties, referred to the States respectively, or to the people [emphasis added]. ” James Madison, Draft of the Virginia Resolutions - December 1798.
Get the numbers right and notice that many self-deported.
http://www.factcheck.org/2010/07/hoover-truman-ike-mass-deporters/
LoL @ National Review.
What you have to do is locate every illegal and serve them with a notice stating that: “In 90 days from this date you will be subject to immediate removal to your country of origin”.
Make it known that they will be removed having nothing in their possession other than the clothes on their backs and that all abandoned property is to be seized by the government.
This should facilitate many self-deportations.
Half a million self-deported and the number was bigger than 1.5 million like the liberals want to cite. The article gives a round ball figure of 3 million which is about right. The purpose of the article is to disprove the fallacy that it cant be done. Of course it can be done with the right man doing it. But it will not be done with a democrat or RINO in office that wants to tear the borders down. I have never read anyway where 13 million were deported. Now that would be great.
Cesar Chavez coined the phrase Wetback.
Factcheck.org??? Yep always get it right.
Chavez must have been a precocious little devil, then, since he was born in 1927 and, according to my dictionary, the word was coined in 1929.
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