Donald Trump Defends ‘Operation Wetback’ Plan for Deporting Illegal Immigrants
*The idea that Trump would “defend” operation wetback is outrageous. The fact that he would think it’s OK to defend it explains why 67% of Latinos have a “very negative” view of him. VL
By Ma. Elena, Latino Post
Donald Trump said that one of his immigration policies if he gets elected as the next president of the United States would be fashioned after a 1950s initiative called Operation Wetback.
[pullquote][tweet_dis]Eisenhower’s 1954 policy deported roughly 1 million undocumented immigrants to Mexico.[/tweet_dis][/pullquote]The repatriation project, which was created by the Director of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service Joseph Swing together with the Mexican government, was enacted during former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s term, Fox News Latino reported.
In CBS’ 60 Minutes Overtime, Trump said that his plan will deport all illegal immigrants in the country, only allowing them to return on a per-case basis work.
“We are rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way, and they’re going to be happy because they want to be legalized,” the GOP frontrunner told CBS’ Scott Pelley, as quoted by Fox News Latino. Trump added that plenty of people didn’t know that Eisenhower’s immigration plan worked.
Eisenhower’s 1954 policy deported roughly 1 million undocumented immigrants to Mexico.Washington Post wrote that Operation Wetback was named after “the disparaging term for Mexicans who arrived in America through the Rio Grande, and considered by many immigration scholars as a painful part of national history because of the documented abuse that Mexican migrants suffered during and after their deportations.”
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