Jose Antonio Vargas Blasts Donald Trump For Mass Deportation Plan

During the fourth Republican presidential debate Wednesday, Trump repeated his call for mass deportations of people here illegally. “‘I like Ike, ‘ right?”

That’s a far cry from the 11 million people Trump is promising to take across the border. Now they can come back but they have to come back legally. “We want you to come back through this big handsome door in this border that he’s going to talk about”, explained Cohen. “Moved them way south. They never came back”.

Eisenhower implemented the program after a 1951 study concluded that undocumented Mexicans were depressing the labor market. But did he really move that many in one operation?

They were referring to Trump’s remarks at the debate when he defended his immigration vision by alluding to President Dwight Eisenhower’s deportation plan known as “Operation Wetback”, though he didn’t specifically mention its disparaging name.

Wetback is a disparaging term applied to Mexicans who passed across the Rio Grande. The candidate has argued that immigrants are drivers of crime, drug use and sexual assault in the USA (we can’t find much evidence to back these claims).

“We are a country of laws”.

Then we’d know how serious he is. Mr. Obama did not act willfully or without considering the legislative branch, but rather acted out of frustration with a Just-Say-No Congress that has repeatedly failed to resolve the problem of 11 million undocumented immigrants living in this country. “It was like a carrot and a stick”, said Mae Ngai, a professor of history at Columbia University.

The government used boats created to carry cargo to move immigrants from places like Galveston, Texas, to locations on Mexico’s eastern shore.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was particularly ecstatic to see a federal appeals court rule against President Obama’s executive order allowing up to 5 million illegal immigrants to stay in the USA and work. This continued, so Trump has a bit of a point there. “It might be the case that a few were discouraged, but others returned”. Also lost in Trump’s telling is that it coincided with a guest worker programme that provided legal status to hundreds of thousands of largely Mexican farm workers.

“This represents a milestone in the immigration debate”, wrote James Kirkpatrick. The guest worker program ended in 1965.

After Trump’s comment, National Policy Institute President Richard Spencer tweeted, “Operation Wetback, f*** yeah!” To detain them? It makes for interesting speculation to wonder what a Trump deportation force would be capable of doing to civil liberties.

“Illegal immigration, each year, costs us between $200 billion and $300 billion”, Trump told Erin Burnett during an interview for “Erin Burnett OutFront”.