Yup ... IIRC to bypass the corruption at the head of the border patrol, Eisenhower placed a friend from the military in charge of Operation Wetback.
Agents swept through the country, placed illegals on a boat and shipped them to southern Mexico. It didn’t take long for illegals to start self deporting )something we ought to encourage).
It both saddens and infuriates me that no one today will deal with it head on. Those who even mention it as a problem are called racists, xenophobes, and ridiculed by the MSM, and the elites of both parties.
Same here, this should have been taken care of years ago.