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Title: We could deport 1 million illegal aliens nearly 60 years ago, but can’t today?
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Immigration Reform Examiner
URL Source: http://www.examiner.com/immigration ... y-60-years-ago-but-can-t-today
Published: Mar 8, 2012
Author: Dave Gibson
Post Date: 2012-03-08 06:54:01 by Hondo68
Keywords: roundup of illegal aliens, only 750 federal agents, a matter of will; not ability
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While we are constantly being told by President Obama and Republican contenders such as Newt Gingrich that we simply “cannot deport millions of people.” However, history proves this to be a lie. In 1954, President Dwight David Eisenhower appointed his West Point classmate and 101st Airborne Division veteran Gen. Joseph "Jumpin' Joe" Swing as head of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). On June 17, 1954, under the direction of President Eisenhower, Gen. Swing began a roundup of illegal aliens for deportation in what became known as “Operation Wetback.” The operation initially began in California and Arizona but eventually spread to several other states. By the end of July, more than 50,000 illegal aliens had been arrested between the two states. On July 15, 1954, the first day of operations in Texas, 4,800 aliens were apprehended across the Lone Star state, with a daily average thereafter of about 1,100. According to the INS, 80,000 illegal aliens had been taken into custody in Texas by September, with an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 leaving the state voluntarily or ‘self-deporting.’ Border Patrol agents also made apprehensions in Utah, Nevada and Idaho during this time. The illegal aliens were sent back to Mexico on WWII-era army trucks, buses and trains into the interior of Mexico, rather than simply letting them go just on the other side of the border as would be done in later years. Illegal aliens were even sent back to Mexico by ship. The Emancipation, for instance, ferried the Mexican nationals from Port Isabel, Texas, to Veracruz, Mexico. The operation was over by the fall of 1954 with the INS claiming to have removed 1,300,000 (including self-deportations) illegal aliens from the American southwest in only a few months. The reasons for Operation Wetback were much the same as those which exist today…Illegal immigration poses a threat to the security of the United States (crime, higher financial burden for taxpayers, public health risk due to disease, etc.). However, unlike today there was a man in the White House who took his oath to protect this country seriously and placed the safety of American citizens over that of cheap labor. By the way, the entire operation was conducted with no more than 750 federal agents, only a fraction of the reported 20,000 agents we have today. Source data: "How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico." The Christian Science Monitor, July 6, 2006. (http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html) "Operation Wetback." The Texas State Historical Association. (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/pqo01)
Poster Comment: You don’t hear much from the media or from anyone for that matter about President Dwight Eisenhower and illegal immigration – but you should. Writing for the Examiner, Dave Gibson uses a brief history lesson to put the lack of immigration law enforcement by the current administration into proper context showing how the feds’ failure to enforce federal immigration law is a matter of will – not a matter of ability. On June 17, 1954, under the direction of President Eisenhower, Immigration and Nationalization Service (INS) began a roundup of illegal immigrants for deportation in what became known as “Operation Wetback.” The roundup initially began in California and Arizona but eventually spread to Texas, Utah , Nevada and Idaho. By the end of the next month, more than 50,000 illegal immigrants had been arrested between California and Arizona. In Texas, 80,000 illegal immigrants had been taken into custody in under two months with an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 leaving the state voluntarily or ‘self-deporting.’ Rather than being let go on the other side of the border like we do today, the illegal immigrants were sent back to Mexico on WWII-era army vehicles into the interior of Mexico. They were also ferried back to Mexico by ship from Port Isabel, Texas, to Veracruz, Mexico. With only 750 federal agents, compared to the reported 20,000 agents we have today, the INS removed 1.3 million illegal immigrants (including those who self-deported) in just three months. This just goes to show there are NO EXCUSES for today’s failure by the federal government to secure the southern border.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower...The last president to take his oath seriously? US Deported 1.3 Million Illegal Iimmigrants Nearly 60 Years Ago
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