Posted on 07/05/2006 6:36:51 PM PDT by AZRepublican
AZ B U M P
History bump
Ike called them "wetbacks"?! Oh, the humanity!
BTTT
Now where id I put my "I Like Ike!" button?????
Good article.
And as any modern economist will tell you - along with fellow travelers like Mayor Bloomberg - the result was economic collapse.
Here's the graph of US real GNP per capita. See the economic collapse for yourselves:
What, you didn't see it? Guess you're not an economist.
Hell froze over 1951 too I bet.
I'm surprised Hollywood hasn't made a "gut-wrenching, heartbreaking" movie about this to show how, yet again, 1950s America was cruelly tearing families apart and denying people their rights. And of course, all the Democrats would be good guys trying to help the poor immigrants, and all the immigrants would be lovable, soft-spoken, gentle types with big-eyed children weeping at their feet...
Can you also show me on the chart where influxes of cheap labor destroyed the US economy?
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.
We have the start of a plan...
You had better hide that chart before the OBL sees it.LOL
Seriously, it is an excellent chart.
OH the horror. LOL
Great Story. The transfer of INS officials to non-border areas for the purpose of ensuring enforcement on the border reminds me of the reverse situation in which Asa Hutchinson, then Border and Transportation Security Undersecretary in the Department of Homeland Security visited Temecula, CA in 2004 to hammer his underlings in the Border Patrol who were engaging in "unauthorized" enforcement. He caught a lot of heat from the public and not long afterward quietly resigned.
Don't worry, the theme song for such a flic has already been written many years ago (by Woody Guthrie), and you can guess at the script easily enough:
http://www.bobdylanroots.com/deportees.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportee_(Plane_Wreck_At_Los_Gatos)
http://mysongbook.de/msb/songs/d/deportee.html
Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
Chorus:
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have your names when you ride the big aeroplane
All they will call you is, deportees
The crops are all in and the peaches are rottnin'
The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps
They're flying them back to the Mexican border
To pay all their money to wade back again
Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted
Our work contract's out and we've got to move on
It's six hundred miles to the Mexican border
They chase us like outlaws, like rascals, like thieves
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos caynon
A fireball of lightning, it shook all our hills
Who are these good people all scattered like dry leaves
The radio said they were just deportees
Is this the best way we can harvest our orchards
Is this the best way we can harvest our crops
To die like dry leaves and to rot on the topsoil
And be called by no name except, deportees
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I'm surprised Hollywood hasn't made a "gut-wrenching, heartbreaking" movie about this to show how, yet again, 1950s America was cruelly tearing families apart and denying people their rights. And of course, all the Democrats would be good guys trying to help the poor immigrants, and all the immigrants would be lovable, soft-spoken, gentle types with big-eyed children weeping at their feet...
"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.
Unlike today, Mexicans caught in the roundup were not simply released at the border, where they could easily reenter the US. To discourage their return, Swing arranged for buses and trains to take many aliens deep within Mexico before being set free.
Tens of thousands more were put aboard two hired ships, the Emancipation and the Mercurio. The ships ferried the aliens from Port Isabel, Texas, to Vera Cruz, Mexico, more than 500 miles south."
ping
Operation Wetback 1954 President Eisenhower
Handbook of Texas Online ^ | May 26, 2006 | Fred L. Koestler
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