June 17 1954, Pres. Eisenhower deported approx 80,000 illegals?

Question

in the space of almost a year, not including at least 500,000 illegals who left voluntarily. He initiated it, with the blessing of Congress.
If this could be done in 1954 cant it be done now.
Do you know what this Operation was called?

Answer 1

i can't find any record of that

are you sure you got the right date?

wait, i found it under 1954

it was a program that sent many illegal and legal immigrants back to mexico. at that time, america was in a great depression and the only reason they did that was in the hopes of making the economy better.

this would not work now days since you cannot deport citizens and we are not economically depressed.

not to mention that more illegal immigrants come into the united states in one year than eisenhower deported in the whole program. it would just be the tip of the iceburg.

Answer 2

Obami wants to keep the Mexicans. They don't care what they do here or the damage they cause others, not even the damage they do to their own children. They are, after all, still angry at Americans for stealing their land, so they send their losers north to re-inhabit their lost territories. Washington retaliates by sending them our jobs. Now Obama wants to, literally, give away the farm. His immigration policies reflect just that. Most Mexican immigrants are failures in their home countries, because they are lazy and look for the easy way. Their homelands are filled with factory jobs that had once been held by Americans on US soil. They enter the US illegally, because entering the US legally requires some effort and they want the easy way. They don't value education and, consequently, neither do their children. Many look to crime instead of work that requires education and training. After all. they're looking for the easy way. Now Obama wants to pave the easy way for these people by giving them a free ride.More of the easy way.

Answer 3

We do not need that program. Simply announce that one year from today:

1. 100% of entitlement and welfare programs of any kind are cut off from illegals.
2. Anyone caught employing illegals after that date will be fined $25K for the first offense and $250K plus 5 years in prison for the second.
3. Anyone caught here illegally after that date will NEVER be allowed to enter this country legally NO MATTER WHAT!
4. During this time, revamp the legal immigration system to be more streamlined, and more effective in knowing where these legal guests are living and employed.

Couple this with some revamps of current entitlement programs so that they encourage helping ones self rather than punishing those who try to improve their situation, and we would have a great exodus of illegals not wanting to ruin their chances of ever coming here.

You see you remove any reason to be here illegally, and they will leave.

Answer 4

It was called Operation ******* and was soundly criticized by most Americans.... Too bad you didn't read the fallout and consequences of this action... Here is a brief for you.....

Oh, and you should know that along with this mess, 150,000 were granted amnesty under pressure from the farmers in the west.

OPERATION *******, 1954–1955.
Operation ******* occasioned widespread violations of Mexican American civil rights. In response to an escalating demand for cheap labor by western agribusiness and light industry along the border, the immediate post–World War II years saw a rapid increase in undocumented Mexican workers. By the early 1950s this influx led to demands for stricter enforcement of immigration laws and the expulsion of all undocumented aliens.

During the heyday of Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Red witch-hunt Attorney General Herbert Brownell ordered a massive roundup and deportation of aliens without immigration papers, allegedly in order to protect the United States from communist infiltration. Using mobile forces organized on a military basis under ex-general Joseph Swing, the Immigration and Naturalization Service created a giant dragnet that rounded up and sent across the border over 1 million Mexicanos. After announcing the coming dragnet in May 1954 to encourage voluntary repatriation, the Special Mobile Force began in California, moved to Texas, and then went on to large urban centers in Illinois, Missouri, and Washington state.

Intimidation and unnecessary use of force characterized the entire operation, while civil liberties and human rights were routinely ignored. American citizens were expelled from the country, American children saw one or both parents taken from them, and undocumented husbands were separated from their Chicana wives. Despite assertions that the deportations had solved the undocumented alien problem, the results proved temporary. A decade later illegal entrance was again soaring as the bracero program was terminated in 1964 and demand for cheap labor in agriculture and industry continued.

See also CIVIL RIGHTS ABUSE; REPATRIATION.

Answer 5

America was a very different place in 1954.

Answer 6

BIG difference between 80 thousand and 12-20 million

Answer 7

This highly offensive thing was called Operation ******* and it wasdone without regard to citizenship status. Kids, people who just looked Mexican were rounded up and shipped out if they didn't have papers. It was abandoned after folks figured out that this was a pretty good step toward an authoritarian government.

It can't be done now because a) it only taregtted "Mexican-looking" folks b) Congress won't authorize it c) Most American citizens would oppose such draconian methods.

Answer 8

a great President.

One of the last good Republicans.

Answer 9

What a great intelligent man.

Answer 10

If 500,000 people can be killed in IRAQ in 4 years why not?