While Eisenhower’s plan might not be as effective today (because even Mexico has better methods to move about the country than it did in the ‘50’s), it sure makes more sense than does simple catch and release:
>”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.
The sea voyage was “a rough trip, and they did not like it,” says Don Coppock, who worked his way up from Border Patrolman in 1941 to eventually head the Border Patrol from 1960 to 1973.<
LOL, I like your emphasis upon the rough voyage being a deterent. Shallow bottom, low draft gulf boats do shlosh about, don’t they?