Operation Wetback
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operation-wetback-227-63692
title:
Operation Wetback
text:
Operation Wetback was an immigration law enforcement initiative created by Joseph Swing, a senior United States Army officer and the Director of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The program was implemented in June 1954 by U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell. The short-lived operation used military-style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants—some of them American citizens—from the United States. Though millions of Mexicans had legally entered the country through j
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
1950s U.S. immigration law enforcement initiative
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback
date created:
2004-09-29T02:24:24Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T23:36:42Z
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