Posted on 11/11/2015 1:10:14 PM PST by EveningStar
... Although Trump glibly describes "Operation Wetback" as moving undocumented immigrants "waaay south," this program was at best inhumane and at worst horrific. Back then, the government rounded up suspected undocumented immigrants and sent them deep into the Mexican interior, where they were abandoned with next to nothing. The transports across the border were reportedly "indescribable scenes of human misery and tragedy." In one instance, 88 deportees died from heat stroke in the desert. Other deportees were sent to the Mexican Gulf Coast by ship, in vessels described by historians as an "eighteenth century slave ship" or "penal hell ship." ...
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Jose, why don’t you get together with a bunch of Guatemalans and demonstrate against deportations in front of the Mexican embassy? No, you won’t do that you g.d. hypocrite.
They should have thought about heat stroke before breaking into America illegally.
Also heard a commentator today opine something like, “several of them own homes!” They should have thought about that, too.
If you wondered about the author, you were correct. Here is some bio info:
RAUL A. REYES is an attorney, journalist, and television commentator in New York City. A third-generation Mexican-American, he writes frequently on issues affecting the Latino community.
Reyes is a member of the Board of Contributors of USA Today as well as a contributor to The TODAY Show, NBC Nightly News, Hardball, CNN, MSNBC, HLN, Current TV, HuffPost Live, BBC, NPR, SiriusXM, and Fox News Radio.
Reyes has written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Texas Monthly, Hispanic Magazine, NBCNews.com, NBC Latino, CNN.com, Fox News Latino, The Huffington Post, Politico, The Hill, Salon, and numerous Spanish language-newspapers. His opinions have been cited by Daniel Schorr, The Wall Street Journal, ABC News, CBS News, The Week, The New Republic, and The Washington Post. He has written about everything from soap operas to immigration policy – and covered events from the red carpet to The White House.
Reyes is a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School.
Gee, I wonder why Trump ‘doubles down’ on anti-illegal immigration rhetoric? To the extreme of bringing up a program that most Americans are oblivious to and heretofore unoffended by.
Perhaps he has discovered that an overwhelming majority of Americans (from both parties) agree with him 100 percent.
So, I we don’t use slave ships or dump them in the middle of a desert, en is it OK? Maybe coordinate it with the Mexican govt? Make it their problem.
Latino Supremacist
That pretty much says all you need to know about this POS......
What is a disgrace is that Mexico has shoved 25% of it citizens into the US and we’ve accepted them in violation of our own laws and pay for them. THAT is a disgrace! An invasion by any other name.
And we believe NBC news because they’re supposedly honest?
At that time in the 1950s I was a child living with my family along Oxnard Beach in Ventura County, California. Between the beach community and Oxnard proper were acres and acres of truck farms, and to this day the odor of harvested cabbage is memorable. (Some smells you never forget.) Today those farms have vanished; replaced by tract homes.
The Mexican farm workers came to the U.S. during WWII as so many menfolk were away at war. When they returned, there no longer existed a reason for foreign nationals to work the fields as there was high unemployment among military veterans.
Was the deportations unpopular with the general population? No, I never saw that, even in the late 1960s. I don’t know where NBC is coming from on this except via complaining farmers.
Go, Trump, GO!! Deport the illegal alien invaders!!
Bump. Let him, since he finds us so atrocious, write his followup article on a bus to Tampico.
The man was a patriot.Those people have a country of their own. They should stay there and work to make it a better place rather than ruining our country.
Rush said it was more than 3.6 Million Mexicans
What is a disgrace is the politicians unwilling to enforce our immigration laws for cheap labor and votes.
There is one thing we can agree upon:
MEXICO SUCKS !!
Illegal aliens are criminals!
Roundem up and sendem back to the shithole countries they left before they complete the transformation of America into a shithole country!
You’ll not find much sympathy here, Reyes!
And the problem is? How about give illegal aliens 90 days to register and self deport with right to reapply like everyone else or get deported however it occurs and get permanently barred from reentry?
Gringo go home!
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