[KC Burke]

I would especially like your comments.

[KC Burke]

Regretably, I forgot to add that on our forum, another poster linked this article and I owe him credit for the citation. However, I bookmarked the article and then realized the possible exetended usage only after reflection so I have forgotten who to credit.

Thaks to that poster for his good research of published articles.

[Paperdoll]

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.

[liberallarry]

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.

[KC Burke]

You seem to have a sensible understnding of the guy — what do you think of the article and my proposal?

[wildbill]

A stringent green card system that gives permits to workers for a specified period of time.

A stringent penalty for lawbreaking employers is the answer. Mister Tyson, of Tyson Chicken for example, probably wouldn’t want to spend a year in jail for hiring illegal chicken pluckers.