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Operation Wet Back (sic)
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Operation Wet-back (hyphen added)
In 1949 the Border Patrol seized nearly 280,000 illegal immigrants. By 1953, the numbers had grown to more than 865,000, and the U.S. government felt pressured to do something about the onslaught of immigration. What resulted was Operation Wet-back, devised in 1954 under the supervision of new commissioner of the Immigration and Nationalization Service, Gen. Joseph Swing.
Swing oversaw the Border patrol, and organized state and local officials along with the police. The object of his intense border enforcement were "illegal aliens," but common practice of Operation Wet-back focused on Mexicans in general. The police swarmed through Mexican American barrios throughout the southeastern states. Some Mexicans, fearful of the potential violence of this militarization, fled back south across the border. In 1954, the agents discovered over 1 million illegal immigrants.
In some cases, illegal immigrants were deported along with their American-born children, who were by law U.S. citizens. The agents used a wide brush in their criteria for interrogating potential aliens. They adopted the practice of stopping "Mexican-looking" citizens on the street and asking for identification. This practice incited and angered many U.S. citizens who were of Mexican American descent. Opponents in both the United States and Mexico complained of "police-state" methods, and Operation Wet-back was abandoned.
We need to Repeat History!
Operation Wet-back (hyphen added)
In 1949 the Border Patrol seized nearly 280,000 illegal immigrants. By 1953, the numbers had grown to more than 865,000, and the U.S. government felt pressured to do something about the onslaught of immigration. What resulted was Operation Wet-back, devised in 1954 under the supervision of new commissioner of the Immigration and Nationalization Service, Gen. Joseph Swing.
Swing oversaw the Border patrol, and organized state and local officials along with the police. The object of his intense border enforcement were "illegal aliens," but common practice of Operation Wet-back focused on Mexicans in general. The police swarmed through Mexican American barrios throughout the southeastern states. Some Mexicans, fearful of the potential violence of this militarization, fled back south across the border. In 1954, the agents discovered over 1 million illegal immigrants.
In some cases, illegal immigrants were deported along with their American-born children, who were by law U.S. citizens. The agents used a wide brush in their criteria for interrogating potential aliens. They adopted the practice of stopping "Mexican-looking" citizens on the street and asking for identification. This practice incited and angered many U.S. citizens who were of Mexican American descent. Opponents in both the United States and Mexico complained of "police-state" methods, and Operation Wet-back was abandoned.
We need to Repeat History!
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It seems they feel they are in for good, and since they are getting work, and wages undreamed of in Mexico, a party is in order. Around here, it is not onusual to be requested to pay $12-$15 for casual labor.
A few tumbled out of an area bar yesterday ay 5:15 p.m., nearly colliding with my wife, whom I was walking back from the train, after work.
Public drunkenness and underage drinking seems to be tolerated. They cannot produce proof of age, get served, and if caught, the cops shake their heads and release them with "strong words of discouragement", which, not understood, are taken with a straight face, promises to refrain from such behavior [or some other words; who knows], and they are allowed to pass.
I'm honestly not sure what to do. It is easier, and dangerous [from a legal point of view] to do more than step out of their way. However, the local Sergeant with whom I discuss such matters cautions me strongly against any violence.
While the law is not for the violators, it is certainly against me.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/OO/pqo1.html
LMAO! MIKE
I worked construction quite a bit in Atlanta in the '60s and '70s. All kinds of work got done without the help of Mexicans.
Even yard work was done, I earned lots of money as a kid mowing lawns.
Today, ya gotta speak Spanish to crank up a lawn mower or leaf blower.
here!
The illegals have never been the least concerned - if they fail to
make it on Monday, there's always Tuesday or Wednesday.
You've got to be one seriously retarded illegal if it takes you more than two attempts to avoid "la migra!"[:D]