Trump touts controversial Eisenhower program as deportation model

To be fair what Trump's really saying is... if we had the wherewithal to get rid of illegals back in the Eisenhower years why is it an insurmountable task to do it now? 

Why is we can arrest 1.5 million people a year for DWI but it is unfathomable to do the same with illegals?

 I'll tell you why. Because people like these 4 "conservatives" below have no appetite for it. No one is suggesting killing anybody. Yet they describe their deportation as inhumane, brutal. Try telling that to Kate Steinle's family not to mention a slew of others. People with this thought process are part and parcel as to why we have sanctuary cities today.

 How you get rid of them:

The first two are an absolute must if you ever expect to correct the problem!

1. Do whatever it takes to seal the border. 

2. Change the 14th Amendment by not automatically granting citizenship to "anchor babies".

3.  This could be done in some form. This is just one suggestion.

Once it is determined they're here illegally... e.g. committed a crime, traffic violation, domestic violence, etc they are sent to a detention centers. I can hear the libs crying now... oh-no don't say  detention centers. These detention centers will be located in 49 sates (Hawaii will have to deal with it on its own). Once a month they are picked up and since the vast majority of illegals are Mexicans, and to a lesser amount South America's, are transported over the border to Mexico. If Mexico doesn't like it that's to damn bad. That's where they came in from... that's where they're going back. Put the problem in Mexico's lap where it belongs. They created it with their own citizens and also allowed South America's to waltz through their country to get here. Now we can return the favor. 

People will say...well how much is this going to cost?

How much does it cost not to?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/02/immigration-costs-fair-amnesty-educations-costs-reform/

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You know we got a problem when you have these 4 guys...

siding with Comrade de Blasio.

De Blasio would 'unquestionably' resist Trump's deportation plan

“This is outrageous and we really need to fight this right now because what he is saying, you know, to call it un-American is an understatement. It is inhumane. He’s talking about deporting people using as his example a plan that was inhumane, that was proven to be in so many ways immoral, which lead to the deaths of many people.”

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump again touted a controversial policy from the 1950s Wednesday as a model for his plan to deport an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants. 

The program, known as "Operation Wetback," was a complicated undertaking largely viewed by historians as a dark moment in America's past. 

Read this.

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

I'm not advocating death to illegals. But as you read about the "dark moment in America's past" maybe you should also read the dark moment real Americans are facing today.

http://www.ojjpac.org/memorial.asp

The head count indicates more Americans are killed by illegals than Mexicans were during Operation Wetback. 


It also coincided with a guest worker program that provided legal status to hundreds of thousands of largely Mexican farm workers. 

Fox News' Bill O'Reilly confronted Trump about his support for the program Wednesday night on "The O'Reilly Factor." 

"Believe me when I tell you, Mr. Trump, that was brutal what they did to those people to kick them back [across the border]," O'Reilly said. "I mean, the stuff they did was really brutal." 

"I've heard it both ways. I've heard good reports, I've heard bad reports," Trump responded. "We would do it in a very humane way." The real estate billionaire also refused to refer to the program by its name, which is now widely considered a racial slur against Mexicans, saying "I don't like the term at all." 

The 1954 initiative was aimed at apprehending and deporting agricultural workers who had crossed the border illegally looking for work. 

Critics of the program say the conditions for those the agents apprehended were anything but humane. Many of the apprehended migrants were transported in crowded buses and dumped on the other side of the border in a manner some at the time equated with the treatment of livestock. 

Rival GOP candidates have started to challenge Trump's deportation plan claims. 

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., told Fox News on Thursday that the U.S. needs to deport criminal offenders, those overstaying visas and others. 

But, he said, "I do not believe you can round up and deport 11 million people, especially people who have been here 15 years, have not otherwise violated a law." 

Using this same methodology if you robbed a bank 15 years ago and stayed clean since... all is forgiven?

Trump touted the Eisenhower-era program in Tuesday night's debate. 

"He's only got part of the story," Mae Ngaio  a professor of history at Columbia University, told the Associated Press. 

Stop right here. This guy's a professor at liberal Columbia University. That's really all you need to know. The good professor is brimming with facts and figures. A very through investigative job. But if you asked him where a certain alumni's college transcripts are he wouldn't have a clue.

According to a summary of the project from the Texas State Historical Association, the United States Border Patrol "aided by municipal, county, state, and federal authorities, as well as the military, began a quasi-military operation of search and seizure of all unauthorized immigrants." 

The project, Ngai said, began with 750 immigration officers and border control agents, who used jeeps, trucks, buses and airplanes to apprehend migrants nationwide, including in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. They apprehended 3,000 people a day and 170,000 during its first three months. 

In one incident, Ngai said, 88 apprehended Mexicans died of sunstroke after being subjected to 112-degree heat. The number would have been higher had the Red Cross not intervened. 

Some of those apprehended were sent deep into the interior of Mexico to prevent re-entry by train or cargo ship, where conditions drew the attention of federal regulators. 

One congressional investigation likened a transport ship that was the site of a riot to an "eighteenth century slave ship" and a "penal hell ship." 

Trump also leaves out of his advocacy for the Eisenhower-era approach the fact the program was developed to complement a guest-worker program that began in the 1940s and was aimed at allowing Mexican farmworkers to enter the country and work in the U.S. legally. 

Hundreds of thousands of farm workers did so, and the deportation effort was conceived as a way to pressure employers into using the guest worker program. 

"It was like a carrot and a stick," Ngai said. 

While Trump has put the number of deportations at 1.5 million, most accounts suggest the numbers are far fewer, because they included those who chose to leave the country voluntarily as well as people who returned after being deported and were deported again. 

Trump has yet to lay out precisely how he would track down those living in the country illegally, or how he would determine who are "the good ones" that he would allow to return. 

Both John Kasich, Ohio's governor, and Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, rejected Trump's plan on Tuesday night as unrealistic and cruel. 

"To send them back, 500,000 a month, is just not, not possible," Bush said. "And it's not embracing American values. And it would tear communities apart. And it would send a signal that we're not the kind of country that I know America is." 

Wasn't it Bush who said "They come here out of love". Do you really think he would do anything about illegals? Wonder why his poll numbers are in the tank!

I'm sick of hearing all the excuses. Trump appears to be the only candidate willing to face the situation head on.

Trump touts controversial Eisenhower program as deportation model