Operation Wetback was an immigration law enforcement initiative created by Joseph Swing, a retired United States Army lieutenant general and head of the...
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the US government, including Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954, with "Operation Wetback", a project that involved the mass deportation of illegal Mexican...
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in other countries Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary, a 2005 film about undocumented immigration to Canada Operation Wetback, a project of the INS...
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implemented Operation Wetback, a program created in response to public hysteria about immigration and immigrants from Mexico. Operation Wetback led to the...
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with planning a mass deportation operation. On June 9, 1954, the INS Commissioner Joseph Swing announced Operation Wetback, a campaign to deport all undocumented...
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State Historical Association. "Operation Wetback". Retrieved May 24, 2011. Heer, Jeet (2016-04-15). "Operation Wetback Revisited". The New Republic. Retrieved...
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In 1954, Operation Wetback forced the return of thousands of illegal immigrants to Mexico. Between 1944 and 1954, "the decade of the wetback," the number...
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future illegal immigration. Greaser Act Operation Wetback Esequiel Hernández Jr. See Joseph Nevins, Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the "Illegal Alien"...
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Examination of Operation Wetback, 1943–1954," The Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 4, (Winter 2006), p. 425. Timeline: 1953 Operation Wetback: The U...
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United States, the Immigration and Naturalization Service launched Operation Wetback in June 1954, as a way to repatriate illegal laborers back to Mexico...
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interethnic pejoratives against Mexican migrants, such as "chuntaro" and "wetback." Cholo style graffiti is a unique writing and lettering style. The artist...
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well. As a result, Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. created Operation Wetback, which was responsible for the deportation of around 300,000 undocumented...
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illegally, the United States government implemented Operation Wetback in 1954. The racial term "Wetback" originated when Mexicans crossed the river Rio Grande...
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deportation. In the post-war era, the Justice Department launched Operation Wetback. During World War II, more than 300,000 Mexican Americans served in...
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to 1962. Among the programs he implemented was the controversial Operation Wetback (1954), designed to slow the number of illegal border crossings from...
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November 1916, Idar founded the weekly paper Evolución which remained in operation until 1920.[citation needed] Idar moved to San Antonio in 1921 where she...
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Mexico Immigration to the United States Mexican Repatriation Operation Gatekeeper Operation Wetback Anderson, Rachel; González, Marc-Tizoc; Lee, Stephen (2006)...
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not want them competing with American workers. In what is known as Operation Wetback, several hundred U.S. citizens were also deported by mistake, because...
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