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ronpaulhawaii
03-24-2008, 11:56 AM
I have heard the rhetoric descibing the difficulties of deporting 12million trespassers as "impossible". To counter, I present:



Operation Wetback deported more than 80,000 130,000 Mexican nationals in the space of almost a year, although local INS officials claimed that an additional 500,000-700,000 1 million to 1.2 million had fled to Mexico before the campaign began. The INS estimates rested on the claim that most illegal immigrants, fearing apprehension by the government, had voluntarily repatriated themselves before and during the initiative. Proponents of increased deportations point to a multiplying effect, where each individual deported resulted in roughly nine voluntarily returning to their home country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback


The above was in 1954. During the Great Depression there was a similar operation:



In 1924, the Quota Act of 1924 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924) reduced immigration from Europe from over 1 million a year to less than 100,000, although exemptions were made for the Western Hemisphere, including Mexico. Following the onset of the Depression, the US government began an active drive against immigrants living illegally in the country. Announcing that there were 400,000 illegal immigrants in the U.S., Sec.of Labor William Doak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Doak) ordered his agents to carry out provisions of the new law. They raided public and private places from New York City to Los Angeles. Between 1929 and 1935, some 163,900 people were deported from the country for being here illegally, of whom 35,000 were deported to Mexico, roughly 20% of the total.

...Many who were not forcibly deported opted to leave of their own volition in light of the anti-Mexican climate...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation

LEK
03-24-2008, 12:05 PM
But you aren't expected to draw from history or be able to think. You only know what they tell you...put those blinders back on.