Ryan Favors Legal Status for Immigrants Trump Wants to Send Home

Eisenhower did oversee a deportation program in 1954, but it involved nowhere near the 11 million people now estimated to be in the US illegally and it was criticized for violating the civil rights of deportees. Trump said on Tuesday, adding that “1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country – moved ’em [way] south, they never came back”. And he suggested Trump was using the proposal to exploit an anti-immigrant strain. I’m saying this: It will be done in a humane way.

“He’s only got part of the story”, said Mae Ngai, a professor of history at Columbia University. “They swept through Texas and California and also northern states and cities”.

It nearly sounds like letting people work is more effective than packing them into cattle cars and dropping them off in the desert, and Operation Wetback is a insane, antiquated aberration that appeals directly to white supremacists and Ann Coulter. But did he really move that many in one operation?

It is true that Operation Wetback, which Trump has cited before, did indeed deport more than a million illegal immigrants-known pejoratively as wetbacks-by a variety of methods, driving many of them deep into Mexico to prevent them from returning. It was their contribution to the Allied effort to defeat the Axis, and it helped Mexico not put any fighters or money into the effort.

“They [the United States] had a duel policy”.

A few of the things Trump has said, such as about bringing illegals back in after being deported, don’t make sense. “You look back in the 1950s, you look back at the Eisenhower administration; take a look at what they did and it worked”, Trump told CBS” Scott Pelley in September. At the end of the day, though, he can’t actually give them what he’s promising, and even if he could, they wouldn’t turn out the way these people are hoping. “We all know you can’t pick them up and ship them … back across the border”, OH governor John Kasich said. Trump continued, “They’re going back where they came”. They came here legally, and he’s talking about all the people that call up. We have no choice. We.

“It was like a military operation and inhumane”. The Truman inquiry placed much of the blame at the time on undocumented immigration. People are going to come in and they are come in legally.

“The ships weren’t refurbished or fitted for this”, Ngai explained. In one incident, 88 people died of heat stroke after being abandoned in a desert near Mexicali. Trump said in the November 10 debate hosted by Fox Business Network. Trump also went on to state that he got to know Russian President Vladimir Putin very well when they were “stablemates” on 60 Minutes.