Posted on 11/23/2014 10:55:38 PM PST by Ray76
(Jul 6, 2006) 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.
America "was faced with a breakdown in law enforcement on a very large scale," Mr. Brownell (Attorney General) said. "When I say large scale, I mean hundreds of thousands were coming in from Mexico [every year] without restraint."
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.
General Swing's fast-moving campaign soon secured America's borders – an accomplishment no other president has since equaled. Illegal migration had dropped 95 percent by the late 1950s.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Still have my “I like Ike “button. Was just a child when he drove past our school and we all stood on the side of the road to welcome him. Had tears flowing when he reached out and patted my trembling hand.
They have all been perfumed princes for decades.
Your fears of a North American Union are greatly exaggerated.
It’s a matter of will.
I propose Operation Donkey Punch.
It’s a much different country now. We have lawyers (and judges) who make their living off illegals. We have activist judges who openly side with the illegals who tie the System up in knots. None of this existed back in the 1950s. If someone were to have filed a lawsuit on behalf of illegals back them, they would have been laughed out of court—maybe even disbarred.
To do it today, you’d need a President with the ‘nads to declare Martial Law to solve the problem. Unfortunately, only Democratic presidents seem to have ‘nads that size.
Bookmark.
Eisenhower was one of our best presidents. He was also the first president whose administration was subjected to the new medium, television. Many people still believe he was a bad president because the democrat media said so every night on those new-fangled marvels, television sets in the home. However, he was one of the greats.
Does anybody click on links without even a title?
Oh! MY! We can’t have anything, we’ve used in the past, then we can’t play “games” now.
“....Eisenhower was head of the allied forces during the war and was not a pussy politician. “
And he appointed a guy who thought getting into a plane in the dark of night with a parachute and a gun and jumping out deep in enemy territory to fight it out with them was a ‘Plan’.
Deporting any number of people would have seemed a game to such a guy.
I can read the URL and know what it is about.
But that’s just me:)
I met him at a military school reception when I was a young woman dressed nicely for the occasion, and my cadet boyfriend and I got to shake his hand. I was awestruck. As he was leaving the room, he looked back at me with that eagle eye -- no flirting; just a level look. I thought I'd faint.
The generals of today have to hide any political incorrectness and seem to follow the political line....
They are Democrats or GOPe. Any toughness is just political image making. Even Eisenhower was championed by the Eastern Establishment as they were called against the conservative Taft in 1952.....
I’d bet the Army could lay an effective minefield along the border in less than a month.
More or less grew up within walking distance of the Rio Grande near Del Rio, Texas in the 50’s. Several uncles were Border Patrol “River Riders” who were well armed and spent a week at a time patrolling the river, alone. River Riders were a lot like the 1800’s Texas Rangers in Lonesome Dove. Don’t remember hearing much about them bringing in prisoners.
Even in a rural area close to the Rio Grande, rarely saw any illegals.
The deep insertion re-patriation process probably had a strong effect, plus illegal jobs dried up AND no welfare all helped cut the flood to a trickle.
I think one reason Ike was able to get by with Operation Wetback was due to USA’s fresh memories of Mexico being pretty damn friendly and sympathetic with the Nazis during WW2.
As soon as the damn dems got back in power all that rapidly changed, especially under Landslide Lyndon.
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