Trump's Immigration Solution: Bring Back Controversial 'Operation Wetback'

[deminks]

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trumps-immigration-solution-bring-back-controversial-operation-wetback-n461381

On Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate and again on Wednesday morning, GOP candidate Donald Trump touted the controversial 1950s "Operation Wetback" program as a way of dealing with the nation's approximately 11 million immigrants currently without legal status.

Under the then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower program, immigrants inside the U.S. were rounded up and deported to remote places, resulting in deaths and criticism that it led to human rights abuse.

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"The Eisenhower mass deportation policy was tragic," said Aguilar. "Human rights were violated, people were removed to remote locations without food and water, there were many deaths, sometimes U.S. citizens of Hispanic origin were removed. It was a travesty — it was terrible. To say it's a success story, it's ridiculous."

Though Trump extolled the program's praises on the GOP debate, he didn't call "Operation Wetback" by name. The term "wetback" is considered a slur.

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Like Aguilar, Rouse said in an interview with NBC News that regardless of whether people agree with "sending back" immigrants, the 1950s program has been widely criticized for human rights abuses, among them shaving the heads of Mexicans so the Border Patrol could recognize them if they were trying to come back through the border or Attorney General Herbert Brownell's comments to "shoot" Mexicans on site if they attempted to cross the border.

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Der Drumpfenfuhrer has said he would have a team that would "do it" humanely. /sarcasm off

Another little Amerikan history lesson, BTW.