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Jeb, O’Reilly Unaware of Ike on Immigration? (Jeffrey Lord)
conservativereview.com ^ | 8/26/15 | Jeffrey Lord

Posted on 08/27/2015 10:48:52 AM PDT by cotton1706

How can a serious presidential candidate and a major cable television host be so repeatedly ignorant of such a significant moment in American history?

I don’t know. But I do know that both Jeb Bush and Bill O’Reilly are either attacking Donald Trump (Bush) or challenging him on air (O’Reilly) seemingly clueless of a seminal moment in American immigration history.

As discussed in this space last week, that moment in history began on June 17, 1954, when, at the personal direction of President Dwight D. Eisenhower – the fabled American hero of the D-Day invasion – illegal immigrants in America were rounded up and deported back to Mexico. Exactly as Donald Trump is proposing to do today.

First, Jeb Bush.

Famously, Jeb’s grandfather, Connecticut Republican Senator Prescott Bush, was a staunch friend and supporter of Eisenhower’s. Elected to the Senate in 1952, the same year in which his friend Ike was elected president, Senator Bush was a serving U.S. senator throughout the period that Eisenhower launched what was known as, yes indeed, really, “Operation Wetback.”

On that June 17, 1954, the New York Times, which ran repeatedly positive and enthusiastic articles about Eisenhower’s project headlined and wrote this as I have detailed over at NewsBusters :

(Excerpt) Read more at conservativereview.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
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When you expect to just be handed the nomination from the Powers That Be, there's no need to study up on history!
1 posted on 08/27/2015 10:48:52 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

From the article:

For Jeb Bush not to understand this – particularly when his own grandfather was not only a friend and ally of Dwight Eisenhower but a sitting U.S. Senator who apparently went along with his friend Ike’s mass deportation – is an amazing blind spot for a potential president.

For Bill O’Reilly to either ignore or not know about Eisenhower’s Trump-style deportation is amazing.

But whether Jeb and O’Reilly know about Ike’s “Operation Wetback” or not, the fact of the matter is that it happened. The fact is that what Donald Trump is suggesting was in fact done by Dwight Eisenhower. It was a big deal. A Very Big Deal. And history records that it worked.


2 posted on 08/27/2015 10:50:26 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Or they just don’t care.


3 posted on 08/27/2015 10:51:46 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: cotton1706

“For Bill O’Reilly to either ignore or not know about Eisenhower’s Trump-style deportation is amazing.”

I do not find it amazing the BO does not know everything.


4 posted on 08/27/2015 10:56:10 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: cotton1706
Lord: "How can a serious presidential candidate and a major cable television host be so repeatedly ignorant of such a significant moment in American history?"

Uhmm....
A: "Because, like a good Rino/Liberal-lite, they're not interested in truth and would like to conveniently change history?"
B: "Because, like a good Rino/Liberal-lite, it doesn't fit their Socialist/Communist agenda?"
C: "Because, like a good Rino/Liberal-lite, they can't handle the truth?"
D: "Etc..."
5 posted on 08/27/2015 11:00:00 AM PDT by hawaiianninja (Palm note to self: "Prepare for some serious 2016 house cleaning.")
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To: TexasGator

With Bill O’Reilly, Geraldo Rivera, and Megyn Kelly on board, Fox is rapidly becoming just one more leftist news source.


6 posted on 08/27/2015 11:06:00 AM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: TBP

In politics & punditry, facts/history don’t matter when it doesn’t fit your agenda - works for the Leftists/Dems/Progs all the time. I believe Jeb does ‘care’, just 180 degrees in the opposite direction from what Ike cared about. As for BORE, since he doesn’t think deportation will work or is reasonable, anything or anybody not agreeing with his opinion is dismissed as irrelevant.


7 posted on 08/27/2015 11:06:18 AM PDT by Qiviut (Stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross; lift high his royal banner, it must not suffer loss)
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To: cotton1706

Ike’s way of handling illegals was the way Ike handled problems. He put good people in charge, and they came up with a workable plan, and it worked.

Most freepers haven’t heard of his plan and many make fun of it because of their personal biases.

Read how Ike handled the illegal problem as president. It worked then and will work even better with today’s tools:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html


8 posted on 08/27/2015 11:06:37 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Trump, causes Beserk Trump Derangement Syndrome, aka, BTDS! Trump/Cruz 2016/2020! Then Cruz!)
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To: cotton1706

The same people that are running Bush and BOR have an agenda - and deporting millions of illegals isn’t part of it.


9 posted on 08/27/2015 11:07:12 AM PDT by Vic S
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To: cotton1706

BO is a self-aggrandizing blowhard bore who is past his prime. Can’t stand to watch him. FOX really has to get some new talent.


10 posted on 08/27/2015 11:09:01 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: cotton1706

Bill O’Reilly was a tabloid entertainment reporter before he landed the Fox gig. I suspect the only things he knows about history are what his ghost writers on the killing books have told him.


11 posted on 08/27/2015 11:18:49 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: cotton1706

We don’t have to deport a single one - just stop employing them and stop giving them welfare.

The mechanism is already in place to handle this, it’s called “E-Verify,” and most if not all major U.S. corporations already use it to determine immigration status.

I promise you, when they can’t work here, they leave.


12 posted on 08/27/2015 11:19:07 AM PDT by Redbob (Keep your hands off my great-great-grandfather's flag)
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To: cotton1706
Neither Jeb or O'Reilly could confidently answer the question of whether they are smarter than a fifth grader. O'Reilly's major aptitude is in being a self-promoter, in the most tacky sense.

Jeb comes from a fairly distinguished New England family.

Neither ought to be considered for the Presidency, or as a pundit on immigration, or ethnology. I do believe that Jeb loves his family--but that is not a qualification for the Presidency.

13 posted on 08/27/2015 11:28:05 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: cotton1706

That Ike was something else, very political, but not a Party Man by any measure.

Ike and The Donald have several things in common, such as decisiveness. Once their minds are made up they marshal the resources to get it done. Both have very realistic no nonsense outlooks and both can effectively learn from their mistakes.


14 posted on 08/27/2015 11:31:08 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: cotton1706

That Trump suggested that Eisenhower did this is a veiled threat. That Trump knew this meant he likely also knew Grandpa Bush was for it.

Bush is running lame now. He should consider dropping out.


15 posted on 08/27/2015 11:34:18 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: cotton1706

Fox has gone over to the dark side, I not longer watch Fox.


16 posted on 08/27/2015 11:35:44 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: Redbob

Once the wall is up Trump should announce that “The US Government will issue x-thousand Green Cards for Citizens of Mexico this year. The ONLY place where you may file your application is in-person at the US Embassy in Mexico City.”

They’ll self-deport faster than you can say guacamole.


17 posted on 08/27/2015 11:47:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: cotton1706; flaglady47; mickie; pax_et_bonum; Maine Mariner
It doesn't matter if Eisenhower, the Father, Son or the Holy Spirit did something in the past, O'Reilly wouldn't care a whit....he's only interested in what he, Saint Bloviatus, did, does or would do.

Leni

18 posted on 08/27/2015 11:49:00 AM PDT by MinuteGal (It's Not "Immigration", Stupid....IT'S INVASION !")
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To: cotton1706

Every time some RINO whines “We can’t deport 12 million people”, I always wonder why the hell not? It doesn’t have to be done in a day; once we build a working fence, we have years to weed out the illegals.


19 posted on 08/27/2015 12:03:19 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Redbob

Will Obama’s Social Security number pass E-Verify? NOt that I have heard.


20 posted on 08/27/2015 12:21:54 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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