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Title: How Eisenhower Dealt With America’s First Illegal Immigrant Crisis
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Published: Jun 10, 2019
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Post Date: 2019-06-10 16:47:26 by Horse
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This is not the first time the US has dealt with an illegal immigration problem. Only last time it was dealt with in a decidedly swifter and sterner manner. The response, coordinated by President Dwight Eisenhower, resulted in nearly 3 million illegal immigrants being sent home. During his administration, Eisenhower became the first American president forced to deal with problems stemming from illegal immigration. Only, in Eisenhower’s time the politically correct culture of liberal sensitivities had yet to emerge. There was not much in the way of sympathy for those who had crossed into the country illegally. Eisenhower told the New York Times exactly what had caused the problem: “The rise in illegal border crossing by Mexicans [illegal immigrants] to a current rate of more than 1 million cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploiters of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the federal government.” ‘Ike’ took quick and decisive action. He used 1,075 Border Patrol Agents to seal the border. In doing so, he achieved a task our government today deems impossible with a force that is 10% larger. Once the border was sealed, Eisenhower went about the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens. In June of 1954, he appointed retired General Joseph “Jumpin’ Joe” Swing to head “Operation Wetback,” which sent local and federal officials on sweeps of Mexican neighborhoods looking for illegals. Within one month 50,000 illegals had been captured and deported, while nearly half a million more fled the country to avoid arrest. By September 80,000 more illegals had been removed from the state of Texas alone, and between 500,000-700,000 more had fled the country. These illegals weren’t just dropped at the border; Swing arranged for buses and trains to take immigrants deep into Mexico before releasing them. Tens of thousands more were shipped by boat from Texas to Vera Cruz, Mexico. Using less man power and resources than the federal government has today, Eisenhower was able to seal the border and send nearly 3 million illegal aliens home. The policy had the added effectiveness of deterring future illegal crossings. Whereas today illegal immigrants are given government aid and college tuition, policies which have undoubtedly contributed to an increase in illegal immigration. The economic effects aside, the level of illegal immigration today represents a grave national security concern. Whereas Eisenhower’s policies deterred such activity, President Obama’s policies only further encourage the flow of undocumented persons over our southern border. Poster Comment: This was a copy of an earlier Truman program designed to make jobs for returning servicemen after WW II. Ike ditto for Korean War. His program was called Operation Wetback.
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#1. To: Horse, *The Border* (#0)
Following in the footsteps of Reconquista Ronnie Reagan, President Trump has promised a "Bill of Love" amnesty. GOP amnesty #2. Hoover did the same thing in the early 30's again "Operation wet back" and it frelling worked.
Darkwing: Hoover did the same thing in the early 30's ... The years of the Great Depression saw an exodus of many persons of Mexican heritage, including some who were U.S. citizens. Perhaps as many as 400,000 Mexicans and Mexican-Americans left the US during the Depression because of job [scarcity] and federal immigration officials [allegedly] sometimes used legally questionable tactics to entice this out-migration. A report to the 1931 Wickersham Commission describes immigration officials [allegedly] detaining people who were aliens, whether lawful or otherwise, without any warrant of arrest or search. It was Hoover who appointed the commission that brought these [alleged] abuses to light. Many of these actions were [claimed to have been] done by state and local officials, or by private employers and labor unions. [Note: Stops, searches, seizures and arrests without a warrant were legalized in 1946 as reasonable, routine security procedures within a 100 mile distance from the border (Ref. re: Public Law 613) and isn't the equivalence of illegal alien abuse or "Anti-Hispanicism". It is the 4th Amendment rights of protection for Americans that have been eroded, mainly because we couldn't simply discontinue or downsize a temporary Mexican guest-worker program here that was no longer necessary after WWII without being irrationally accused of "racist hatred", "inhumanity", "ethnic cleansing" and so on.] Hoover, in 1929, But as factcheck.org states: According to Marian Smith at the USCIS [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] Office of the Historian: "There is no evidence that Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of all illegal aliens." And Matthew T. Schaefer, archivist at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa, told us in an e-mail message: "President Hoover never issued a statement, executive order or proclamation ordering the deportation of all illegal immigrants." ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
The Globalist "Open Borders" agenda and the Reparations Movement for money are two orchestrators, imo, of the SJW nonsense. ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
Be legal or begone.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Whereas Eisenhower’s policies deterred such activity, President
ObamaTrump’s policies only further encourage the flow of undocumented persons over our southern border. 
Ron Paul - Lake Jackson Texas Values
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#3. To: Horse, *The Border* (#0)
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Horse: This was a copy of an earlier Truman program designed to make jobs for returning servicemen after WW II. Ike ditto for Korean War. His program was called Operation Wetback.
Presidents and Immigration: Herbert Hoover and Mexican Repatriation - Presidential History Geeks | Feb. 12th, 2017 A viral email which has been debunked by the organization factcheck.org [Ref.] claimed that, as president, Hoover ordered the deportation of all illegal aliens and other immigrants as a means to make jobs available for Americans during the depression. This is at odds with reality. During Hoover's presidency, quotas on immigration already existed, as provided by the Immigration Act of 1924. [...]
did authorized the Mexican Repatriation program to help unemployed Mexican citizens return home. [...] This policy was continued by Hoover's successor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. [Note: SJWs spin all of our voluntary-repatriation efforts as "deportation" and worse, even if American family members of Mexican nationals chose to leave with them.]
#4. To: All (#3)
SJWs spin all of our voluntary-repatriation efforts as "deportation" and worse, even if American family members of Mexican nationals chose to leave with them.
#5. To: GreyLmist (#4)
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