Why do we never hear about how Pres. Truman sent illegal Mexicans back to Mexico on trains during his administration??
That would because he was a Democrat and the libs just love that revisionist history...
“The Buck Stops Here” Harry did that??? WOW. Mexico would have a problem if we did that now!
I believe it was Eisenhower not Truman - Operation Wetback.
Here’s how Eisenhower dealt with illegals. Go to the link and read the whole article.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html
Commentary>Opinion
from the July 06, 2006 edition
How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico
By John Dillin
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In 1954, Ike appointed retired Gen. Joseph “Jumpin’ Joe” Swing, a former West Point classmate and veteran of the 101st Airborne, as the new INS commissioner.
Influential politicians, including Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D) of Texas and Sen. Pat McCarran (D) of Nevada, favored open borders, and were dead set against strong border enforcement, Brownell said. But General Swing’s close connections to the president shielded him - and the Border Patrol - from meddling by powerful political and corporate interests.
One of Swing’s first decisive acts was to transfer certain entrenched immigration officials out of the border area to other regions of the country where their political connections with people such as Senator Johnson would have no effect.
Then on June 17, 1954, what was called “Operation Wetback” began. Because political resistance was lower in California and Arizona, the roundup of aliens began there. 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.
By mid-July, the crackdown extended northward into Utah, Nevada, and Idaho, and eastward to Texas.
By September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 illegals had left the Lone Star State voluntarily.
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John Dillin is former managing editor of the Monitor.