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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...
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...
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.
"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."
Operation Wetback 1954 President Eisenhower
Handbook of Texas Online ^ | May 26, 2006 | Fred L. Koestler
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1638817/posts
Mom "Liked Ike" ... I "LOVE Ike!" Something about a backbone is TREMENDOUSLY appealing.
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Did Ike really "solve" the problem?
Ike won the 1952 election and brought in a Republican US House and Senate and thus initially had the political freedom to do things like this operation in defiance of the Democrats.
However, what this article fails to mention is that just weeks after this operation, the Democrats regained control of Congress in the 1954 elections and would hold it for the next 40 years!
That was a fatal problem that Ike could not solve.
There are now reports the communist candidate, is ahead in the recount. Interesting he was a liberal mayor.
(think Chicago)
If a Hugo Chavez leftist takes over in Mexico - Bush had best get with the program and (1) MILITARIZE the border, (2) BUILD a wall, then we can decide on a good time to invade.
No messing around if the commie wins. None. Zero.
NADA.
In other words, a 10 to 1 ratio can be expected. So, we don't have to deport all 10 million illegals (or however many there are) - just 1/10th of them and the rest will self-deport.
This is the key. There is no need to arrest and deport everyone.
To all the doubty ones here on FR, we CAN deport the illegals. It's a matter of commitment.