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How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico [a proposal for Bush]
The Christian Science Monitor ^ | July 6, 2006 | John Dillin

Posted on 06/08/2007 7:49:06 AM PDT by KC Burke

WASHINGTON – 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. The operation is still highly praised among veterans of the Border Patrol.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Mexico
KEYWORDS: aliens; eisenhower; immigrantlist; immigration
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To: norraad

I like Ike, you like Ike, everybody likes Ike! ...

(Ike saved the GOP IMHO)


21 posted on 06/08/2007 8:00:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: theDentist
“Operation Wetback” would likely cause some panties to bind.

Plus the Rio Grande river is drying up. .....they hardly get wet anymore.

22 posted on 06/08/2007 8:00:43 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: theDentist

Nah, I like the name...we’re too sissyfied now...


23 posted on 06/08/2007 8:00:50 AM PDT by fightinbluhen51
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To: KC Burke
this has been hashed around a number of different times on FR.

It seems more appropriate now.

Let’s call it “Operation Adios Amigos”

Give everybody long bamboo poles ..spread ‘em out in a line and start beating the bushes ala The Apes flushing out the humans hiding in the bush...in Planet of the Apes.

24 posted on 06/08/2007 8:00:59 AM PDT by stylin19a (Since bad golf shots come in groups of 3, a 4th bad shot is the start of the next group of 3)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
W...,absentee president.

Also, he learned from the marx bros., "Sincerity, if you can fake that, you've got it made."

25 posted on 06/08/2007 8:01:01 AM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: KC Burke

Dwight D. Eisenhower was a great general. He told his men what to do, and they did it - in Europe and on our Southern border.


26 posted on 06/08/2007 8:01:06 AM PDT by Paperdoll ( Duncan Hunter '08)
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To: KC Burke
What do you think of the implementation of my Eisenhower-Bush Immigration Plan?

Not sure I heard of this before but what a great idea. Doubt Bush would come out of his coma on immigration.

27 posted on 06/08/2007 8:01:21 AM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Al Gator

CONTRABAN=CONTRABAND


28 posted on 06/08/2007 8:01:37 AM PDT by Stayfree (*************************Get your copy of The Fred Factor by David Gill at Capitol Hill Comedy.com)
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To: KC Burke

bookmarked.....if we don’t do something like this.....then what I’ve said is true......I lived through the BEST times of the US.....


29 posted on 06/08/2007 8:01:48 AM PDT by goodnesswins (We need to cure Academentia)
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To: HarleyLady27
You are neglecting the firm established fact that NO President and no Congress has been willing to do such enforcemtn for 21 years.

You are neglecting the fact that government functionaries are immutably convinced that new laws or programs are needed when they simply won't do their jobs and the media, the courts and acedemia have all reinforced that tendancy.

My answer is a new program and direction. It is bold, it satisfies me and if you saw the first part being strongly implemented, my bet is that you could live with the second component faced with the alternative of failing an action like this we will get a new Kennedy-Lott-Graham-Ried solution within months.

If we have a loss of the Presidency, you will get a much worse solution.

Action is needed now and without a sea-change in governement thinking, we won't like what the functionaries come up with.

30 posted on 06/08/2007 8:03:47 AM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: Logical me

Thanks.


31 posted on 06/08/2007 8:05:21 AM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: theDentist
“would likely cause some panties to bind.”

Just about anything that makes common sense and is empirically realistic gets the “liberals” panties in a twist.

32 posted on 06/08/2007 8:07:04 AM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam.)
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To: theDentist

The tighter they bind, the better.


33 posted on 06/08/2007 8:08:25 AM PDT by wastedyears (Check my profile for links to anti-illegal immigration T-shirts.)
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To: KC Burke
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.

To the tune of Mrs Robinson:

Where have you gone Joseph Jumpin Joe?

Jumpin Joe has left and gone away

Hey hey hey

Influential politicians, including Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D) of Texas and Sen. Pat McCarran (D) of Nevada, favored open borders...

What do you know? LBJ was screwing the country even before he became Prez.

34 posted on 06/08/2007 8:08:40 AM PDT by beckaz (Dump Gonzales Yesterday, and Chertoff too.)
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To: KC Burke

This article is a very interesting account. Thank you for the post.


35 posted on 06/08/2007 8:10:40 AM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: KC Burke

Just a quick question. If something like this was implemented what would happen to the many children (who are legal citizens because they were born here.) You can’t deport a citizen, so we’d better have a way to deal with all the kids left behind, or would you only deport those without “legal” dependents/children.


36 posted on 06/08/2007 8:10:41 AM PDT by dawn53
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To: beckaz

His life prior to the Presidency makes Hillary look like an amature.


37 posted on 06/08/2007 8:10:55 AM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: KC Burke
My comment is that the article tells only one version of the story.

The other version is that illegal Mexican farm workers were starting to agitate for better treatment and wages. The farmers didn't like it and they got Ike to initiate Operation Wetback. As soon as it was over a new version of the guest worker program brought in enough docile workers (driven by poverty and fear to accept low wages and bad conditions) to keep the farmers happy. Talk about corruption!

Nor was this the first time we did something like that. During the Depression we deported hundreds of thousands of Mexicans, including Mexican-American citizens. It probably happened many times before.

Anyway none of that is relevant in today's world. Bush is not Ike, America of 2007 is not America of 1953, and world communications would never allow a new Operation Wetback to be conducted quietly without dispute.

38 posted on 06/08/2007 8:11:34 AM PDT by liberallarry
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To: KC Burke
I don't want illegals here. When a person breaks the law to get here, they're not fit to be a citizen. This is a county of laws - and of immigrants - legal ones. Send illegals home.

Here's a plan.

Fine employers $200 for each illegal hired.

Offer $50 bounty for turning in illegals. Let competing companies turn each other's illegals in for the cash.

The "finding them" problem will solve itself.

Then to counter screams of racism - allow people in from the offending countries -- those on the waiting list - those who didn't break the law...

In the 60's there was a bounty put on draft dodgers - $50 to any police office who pulled one in - do the same with illegals. This isn't a difficult problem -- not difficult unless we really don't want to solve it.

39 posted on 06/08/2007 8:16:01 AM PDT by GOPJ (Import fruit, not illegal pickers.)
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To: dawn53
Just a quick question. If something like this was implemented what would happen to the many children (who are legal citizens because they were born here.) You can’t deport a citizen, so we’d better have a way to deal with all the kids left behind, or would you only deport those without “legal” dependents/children.

Well, we all understand the 14th amendment issue that creats this "anchor baby" issue.

A good task for serious posters to comment on is what would be an equally innnovative method of dealing with this issue.

We all know that the 14th wasn't intended for this issue but the courts are locked in in applying it. A Constitutional Amendment would take a rediculous amount of time to implement. The public loves compassion to children -- certainly too much so for their own good due to enlightement sentimentality.

Get your thinking caps on, forget the simple issue of ignoring anchor babies because the public hasn't the stomach for it and come up with something innovative.

40 posted on 06/08/2007 8:16:26 AM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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