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Largest deportation campaign in US history is no match for Trump's plan

  • Written by Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Associate Professor, History and African-American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
imageBorder Patrol officers detaining immigrants in a field after a few local raids.U.S. Border Patrol Museum

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump vowed that if he was elected president, he would resurrect Operation Wetback of 1954. Operation Wetback, the story goes, was the single largest deportation campaign in U.S. history, resulting in more than one...

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