That's cool.
Vote for you?
That's not going to happen.
Your (Perry's) view is demonstrably BS.
During the 1950s, however, this "Good Old Boy" system changed under Eisenhower - if only for about 10 years.
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.
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.
Then on June 17, 1954, what was called "Operation Wetback" began. Because political resistance was lower in California and Arizona, the roundup of aliens began there. Some 750 agents swept northward through agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day.
By the end of July, over 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states. Another 488,000, fearing arrest, had fled the country.
By mid-July, the crackdown extended northward into Utah, Nevada, and Idaho, and eastward to Texas.
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.
Now, to me, that's in the neighborhood of 1,200,000 in three months.
By my cyphering, we can get rid of the mere 6,000,000 claimed by the doofuses --- in about 12 months!
Of course, not if we keep buying into the mindless "It's impossible!", "Can't be done!" --- and never try.
Isn't that called a self-fulfilling prophecy in the universe of the real?
But the beauty of my plan (and every brilliant mind in my one person office spent at least 10 minutes working on it) is it’s simplicity. As soon as a few employers got nailed with fines and word got out, other employers would stop hiring illegals. And illegals that did find work would see the writing on the wall, turn themselves in, get a $300 reward AND plane fare home. Next big issue?
That’s an interesting history lesson. So... How do you conduct an Operation Wetback today in the politically correct and leftist toxic rhetorical climate?
I do know that there was an Operation Streamline on the Texas border in the Del Rio sector. No illegals got through, but the counter argument to Operation Streamline was that we just sent the illegals to the Az or NM border to cross.
The point is that Operation Streamline worked to seal the border on a sector-by-sector bases. The question is, how well will it work if you apply a Streamline-type operation across the entire border.