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I don't think many of us here were alive when Eisenhower implemented Operation *******. Anyone alive was a child
How Trump’s deportation plan failed 62 years ago
Donald Trump has vaulted to the top of the Republican presidential pack with bold assertions – and few policy details.
The rare exception: his immigration plan.
As president, Trump says he would eject some 11 million undocumented workers from the country. He cites a specific model for his proposal: “Operation *******,” an aggressive and unprecedented sweep by U.S. Border Patrol agents in the mid-1950s that plucked Mexican laborers from fields and ranches in targeted raids, bused them to detention centers along the border, and ultimately sent many of them deep into the interior of Mexico, some by airlift, others on cargo boats that typically hauled bananas.
During an interview with Jake Tapper that aired Sunday on “State of the Union,” Tapper noted that many people recall the 1954 operation as a “shameful chapter in American history.”
“Well, some people do, and some people think it was a very effective chapter,” Trump replied. “When they brought them back (to Mexico), they removed some, everybody else left,” Trump said. “And it was very successful, everyone said. So I mean, that’s the way it is. Look, we either have a country, or we don’t. If we don’t have strong borders, we have a problem.”
Trump’s assertion that he could replicate that kind of effort as president, however, ignores how much the country has changed since 1954 and the impact that a massive deportation effort would have on the modern U.S. economy, according to interviews with historians who have studied the immigration tactics of the period, a former Border Patrol agent involved in those operations and immigration experts along the Southwest border. These conversations reveal a deeply flawed operation that even at the time failed to achieve its goal of solving America’s illegal immigration problem.
MAGAnuts, this ain't 1954. That's what I get told when I review the effects of white racist policy. But I guess its fine for right-wing whites to repeat the history they say they are not responsible for.
How Trump’s deportation plan failed 62 years ago
Donald Trump has vaulted to the top of the Republican presidential pack with bold assertions – and few policy details.
The rare exception: his immigration plan.
As president, Trump says he would eject some 11 million undocumented workers from the country. He cites a specific model for his proposal: “Operation *******,” an aggressive and unprecedented sweep by U.S. Border Patrol agents in the mid-1950s that plucked Mexican laborers from fields and ranches in targeted raids, bused them to detention centers along the border, and ultimately sent many of them deep into the interior of Mexico, some by airlift, others on cargo boats that typically hauled bananas.
During an interview with Jake Tapper that aired Sunday on “State of the Union,” Tapper noted that many people recall the 1954 operation as a “shameful chapter in American history.”
“Well, some people do, and some people think it was a very effective chapter,” Trump replied. “When they brought them back (to Mexico), they removed some, everybody else left,” Trump said. “And it was very successful, everyone said. So I mean, that’s the way it is. Look, we either have a country, or we don’t. If we don’t have strong borders, we have a problem.”
Trump’s assertion that he could replicate that kind of effort as president, however, ignores how much the country has changed since 1954 and the impact that a massive deportation effort would have on the modern U.S. economy, according to interviews with historians who have studied the immigration tactics of the period, a former Border Patrol agent involved in those operations and immigration experts along the Southwest border. These conversations reveal a deeply flawed operation that even at the time failed to achieve its goal of solving America’s illegal immigration problem.
MAGAnuts, this ain't 1954. That's what I get told when I review the effects of white racist policy. But I guess its fine for right-wing whites to repeat the history they say they are not responsible for.
