Posted on 05/05/2024 8:32:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Seventy years ago in 1954, immigration authorities created a mass deportation program in the face of out-of-control intrusions at our southern border. Then, like now, the gravity of the problem called for a dramatic policy response.
Unlike now, the federal government rapidly responded, creating a system of roaming “deportation parties” concentrated on border-area factories and farms, netting tens of thousands of illegals in its first few days. The model, which would establish Border Patrol and ICE as we know them today, would later be dubbed, “Operation Wetback.”
Intensely reviled by the globalist Left even to this day, the program is recurringly attacked in mainstream outlets and scholarly journals as yet another blot on America’s trail-of-tears history.
As something of an immigration scholar myself, one of the better examples of academic treatment I’ve come across is a 2006 paper from UCLA African-American Studies professor, Kelly Lytle Hernández. As she shows, Operation Wetback offers plenty of guidance on how to deal with the current border invasion, especially in reclaiming deportations and border control as essential to both receiving and source countries alike.
No doubt surprisingly to some, Prof. Hernández writes in the piece that “cross-border research [into the program] transforms the typically nation-bound and time-bound narrative of Operation Wetback into an unexpected story of evolving binational efforts at migration control” -- that is, “binational” efforts between the U.S. and Mexico such as “collaborative deportations, coordinated raids, and shared surveillance.”
Few would know or at least admit that Operation Wetback was indeed a “binational effort” and essentially co-created by the Mexican government; such is the degree of disinformation and slanted revisionism of the program.
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There were efforts made to make me a Baptist. Mostly it made me hate going to church.
I don’t drink at all, these days. In the olden days of FR, the swingshift crowd could be fun to interact with while less than sober. I never really did much drunk-posting. Of late, if I feel like posting something rude I’ll take it to Facebook.
“Just cut out ALL government aid and make it a criminal felony for a business to employ them”
You’re close.
First: Reverse the decision in Plyler v. Doe. No American taxpayer owes the citizens of a foreign country a dime. We pay for schools for our children.
Second: put teeth into employer sanctions. Asset forfeiture. You can’t say you “own” a business or property in the United States if you sneer and snub the American citizens around you when you hire people. You’re not an island. You cannot bring in and inflict hostile foreigners on the rest of us and expect to keep your business or your property, both of which are legal concepts enforced by the society at large. You wanna live and work in Mexico, go there.
PS:
Third: abolish “birthright citizenship” as practiced by the State Department now. It’s a willful misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment, buttressed by one Supreme Court decision: Wong Kim Ark in 1898. It should be reversed as Ed Meese and John Eastman pointed out in a famous Amicus Curiae brief to the Supreme Court.
We have no obligation to call the offspring of illegal alien parents “our people” simply because they insist on it.
Yup “birthright citizenship” should have been gotten rid of a long time ago. It’s insane that it’s still in place.
Call it right to return.😋
That term is now derogatory.
Say the communists amongst us.
It was for job opportunity for Americans and especially veterans returning after wars.
Back during the great depression, Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of ALL illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work.
Harry Truman deported over two million illegal aliens after WWII to create jobs for Returning veterans.
In 1954 Dwight Eisenhower deported 13 million Mexicans. The program was called Operation Wetback. It was done so WWII and Korean War veterans would have a better chance at jobs. It took two years, but they deported them!
“””””In my neck of the woods you have to really look to find a white guy doing manual labor like yard work, painting, etc.”””””
Because they were driven out of that work, and there is no level where it stops, picking vegetables turns to yard work, turns to painting, turns to electrical, turns to machinist.
Go to any area in America where it is still all white and you will see that all the work is still being done by local whites, your gardener is white, your busboy is white, your roofer is white.
Where I live Hispanics are 10% of the population and perform virtually all of the manual labor, yard work, house cleaning, private child care, construction, hotel housekeeping, car wash people, crop picking, etc. I presume most of them are here illegally. Are you saying that American citizens would do those jobs if they were available? I seriously doubt that that would happen.
“””””Are you saying that American citizens would do those jobs if they were available? I seriously doubt that that would happen.”””””
I know they will and they do, I went through and watched it, and as I described, in areas where there are no illegals or Mexicans all of that work gets done by the locals, there was never a time when that wasn’t true.
In my post I meant to say went through (it) and watched (it).
I watched as one Mexican took over the car wash opening or the back of the restaurant and once one came in then these older men pushed out the Americans and every new hire was one of theirs then sheetrock, concrete, roofing.
They kept it up, do you really think that Americans don’t want construction jobs, trade jobs, city trade jobs, day care jobs, welding, plumbing, electrical work, roofing, machinist work, and on and on?
Have you noticed how lousy the illegals are everything? Have you ever traveled Mexico and think that they had any particular skills or great work ethic, or building skills? Suddenly guys from a grubby hell hole of incompetence and laziness come to the US and suburban women think that they are master craftsmen.
A huge part of America becoming grubby and shoddy is the replacement of skilled journeymen with guys who simply work cheap, look at the million dollar homes and notice the trim work, the sheetrock ripples, the tile work, one reason everything becomes standard and the same is that the skilled craftsmen are gone so work must stay simple and repetitive so that a generic laborer can get it done.
Mexicans simply say yes I can do it and people with low standards say fine, the price is right, without giving a thought to how that guy suddenly mastered whatever is required if he is from some dirt floor village and doesn’t know squat about anything except getting some cash in his hand for his beer that night.
Democrats will demonize trumps. Deportation program and thereby strip off part of his winning coalition
The way to solve this problem is the same as the solution to a problem trump is creating with his new cities program on federal lands. The problem with that plan. Is that most federal lands are out west where all the water sources are tapped out.
Where will they get new water. Trump pl a to hold giant city design contests. Where the winning design is used to build new cities.. another contest could be held for the first company to desalinate seawater for 300@acre foot. That’s cheap enough to pipe desalinated seawater 1000 miles from any coast. They’ll be able to bring pacific seawater to the Great Basin. and the inter mountain west.
RE: the problem trump is creating with his new cities program on federal lands.
Can you provide a reliable source for this? This is something I’ve never heard of before.
And shut off the job magnet by making e-verify mandatory.
Plus no welfare, other government handouts or free medical for illegals, either.
which do you mean. the cities?
google “trump plans to build cities on federal lands”
you’ll see a variety of sources. I think trump originally posted it at truth social.
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