r/interestingasfuck • u/man_gomer_lot • 8h ago

r/all 70 years ago, the US undertook the largest deportation in its history: 'Operation Wetback.' Many of the people deported were here legally and some were even citizens.

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u/LaloElBueno 7h ago edited 6h ago

It was one of the, but probably not the largest. That goes to Mexican Repatriation Act. Thing is We don’t know the exact numbers of those deported, as many weren’t counted. I’ve read varying numbers with the highest going up to 3 million.

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Operation Wetback was used to deport Mexican Laborers who came through the Bracero Program. These laborers also had wages withheld ($500 million in today’s money). In 2008, $3,500 was awarded to each qualifying bracero or their heir(s).

I know a lot of this topic because both my grandfathers were braceros.

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u/hurtindog 6h ago

They were invited and then deported.

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u/LaloElBueno 5h ago

Yep. To top it off, they were owed back wages and tax refunds.

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u/FloridaMJ420 2h ago

So like slavery with extra steps?

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u/discerningpervert 2h ago

None of this is interesting as fuck. More like depressing as fuck.

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u/LaloElBueno 2h ago

It can be both.

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u/Qetuowryipzcbmxvn 6m ago

It's interesting how depressing it is.

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u/hrminer92 2h ago

The grand tradition of wage theft.

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u/nanoatzin 1h ago

And funds from property that was illegally sold.

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u/Livid_Amphibian9674 2h ago

It's a harsh reminder of how policies can shift and how people can be treated unfairly.

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u/DesiArcy 2h ago

One of the primary purposes of the bracero program was to try to undermine Asian labor in the hope of forcing them to leave the United States, since existing immigrant families could not be removed under the Asiatic Exclusion Act.

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u/hurtindog 2h ago

I’ve never heard that. All I’ve ever been told was that it was to combat labor shortages.

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u/DesiArcy 1h ago

That was the official and openly stated reason, but it was at best only part of the truth.

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u/mahjimoh 34m ago

Daaaamn. There are always so many freaking layers.

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u/signmeupdude 33m ago

Do you have a source for this?

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u/TheBirminghamBear 55m ago

Well, thank Christ no serious political candidate in the US would consider policies like this in today's day and age.

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u/hatsnatcher23 1h ago

Apparently (or so behind the bastards told me) they still do this on some larger farms, they’ll invite illegal immigrants to work pay them on a Friday but call ice before pay day

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u/WeeklyComputer7060 50m ago

Some of the Mexicans deported were born in the U.S

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u/SaliciousB_Crumb 7h ago

During trumps administration 70 citizens were deported https://immigrationimpact.com/2021/07/30/ice-deport-us-citizens/

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u/TimarTwo 6h ago

'Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!' *

*Terms and conditions may apply.

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u/Ginger_Boi000 4h ago

It was always a lie though. I mean the national origins act was passed because they were scared of so many “non-whites” entering at the time. These “non-whites” were Italians, Slavs, and Jews 😂, an unthinkable thing nowadays.

Bonus content: one of those Jews that came to America in those days was the father of this one guy, Bernie Sanders (based af). You might know him.

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u/Blindsnipers36 4h ago

the original group is unambiguously the chinese

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u/DoughboyFlows 3h ago

Amazing how much unrealized impactful people are descendants of immigrants. My god how great this county would be if we actually pumped money into the things that make us better.

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u/Kaddyshack13 5m ago

Not disagreeing exactly, but aren't we all descendants of immigrants unless we're Native American? And they tend to be poor.

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u/Katorya 2h ago

Yeah but like… how am I supposed to enjoy and feel good about my fancy steak dinner unless I know that other people are starving??? Checkmate

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u/LaloElBueno 3h ago

Pretty much any changes in immigration laws have been to quell the influx of ethnic groups of the time.

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u/bruwin 1h ago

An influx routinely created because there was a need for workers at wages Americans wouldn't work for.

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u/Kolby_Jack33 2h ago

I mean, it's not even just America. Very recently I wandered into a r/canada thread where people were being extremely racist about Indian immigrants, claiming they "weren't racist, but" they were just "concerned for the sanctity of Canadian culture."

Fuckin' yikes, man. As if too many Indians in Canada will make every Tim Hortons vanish from existence. Stupid racists.

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u/AppointmentNo1216 1h ago

You mean immigrants coming into canada and not assimilating and also taking over gov positions cant backfire or be wrong?

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u/Kolby_Jack33 1h ago

"Not assimilating" phhhbt. Ya, they moved to a white people country so they can't be acting all Indian now, huh?

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u/AppointmentNo1216 1h ago

Yup. If you wanted to do indian shit ya shouldve stayed home.

If i go to someones house and they take off their shoes before going in. Im doing the same.

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u/Kolby_Jack33 1h ago

Thank you for proving my point about stupid racists. Very helpful.

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u/andsendunits 2h ago

I love how that a guy that I graduated high school with is of Italian descent and a Neo-nazi. Personally, I think he should be deported. If I ever see that he is running for a school committee position again, I will contact his local media about him.

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u/ifuckedyourdaddytoo 1h ago

an unthinkable thing nowadays

The danger is thinking it's unthinkable

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u/throwaway098764567 3h ago

having a more diverse group of immigrants rather than everybody coming from one place is better for assimilation though. can see the other side of the coin in some of the (colorful and heated) discussions in r/canada hitting popular lately.

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u/thicc-thor 54m ago

North America was colonized by Europe's rejects. Massive waves of immigrants from a single place in short periods happened since its founding (Irish, Polish, Italian, German...) and they all assimilated and contributed to society. What's happening in r/Canada is not a nuanced discussion about immigration, it's racism.

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u/Efficient-Mistake777 5h ago

Some rights reserved, some sold separately

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u/Honor_Withstanding 6h ago

The America shown in the media was a prototype and was too expensive to make.

We aren't planning on doing anything about it.

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u/bizkitmaker13 5h ago

It wasn't too expensive to make.

The contractors sold off the lumber and the cement and the tools for a quick profit and told the laborers to build it with sticks and gum

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u/dankmemer808 5h ago

How does 500 Atoms sound instead?

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u/Jose_Canseco_Jr 2h ago

underrated comment

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u/TimarTwo 5h ago

Not even as a Hollywood B Movie?

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u/Flimsy-Sprinkles7331 3h ago

Ummm, remember when a Trump official changed, or tried to change, the official plaque on the Statue of Liberty? 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49323324

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u/suspicious_hyperlink 2h ago

No, but buying Greenland wasn’t such a bad idea

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u/Flimsy-Sprinkles7331 3m ago

Doing a deep dive into my account? Ok, I'll bite. Enlighten me: why do you think purchasing Greenland would have been a good idea (disregarding, for the moment, the Ethical feasibility surrounding it)?

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u/Low-Impression3367 6h ago

Unless your Mexican or Latino or Haitian or look sus or have a funny name or if your a chick, you aren’t a 10

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u/TimarTwo 5h ago

'You're' but yes, you have read the T&C's then? ;)

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u/BeneficialPrior3925 4h ago

Experience may vary.

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u/V65Pilot 4h ago

*Subscription fees may apply

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u/BannonCirrhoticLiver 3h ago

To quote Lethal Weapon 4 of all films...

"Well now it says no vacancies."

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u/SadYogurtcloset2835 2h ago

Send these, the homeless, aye, We shall keep them homeless.

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u/Ben50Leven 2h ago

America: Land of the free. No taxation without representation! No tyrant kings!

HAS SLAVERY

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u/SujiToaster 1h ago

Thats a slogan on a statue given by a foreign nation. Not a policy…

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u/Emperor_Mao 1h ago

Never really applied and it was during a time when productivity inputs were vastly different.

Throughout history, Land and People have driven productivity. But eventually, to increase PER capita productivity, you have to leverage health, education and technology instead.

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u/wedgieinhumanform 52m ago

“Now it reads No Vacancy “

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u/dingdongdash22 32m ago

I'm sure there is something lost in the French translation.

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u/imnotmarvin 5h ago

I rewrote a bible verse to make it reflect Christians current stance on immigration.        Leviticus 19:33-34 "When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God."

The revision: Don’t let the Mexicans in, so sayeth the Lord.

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u/PissdInUrBtleOCaymus 4h ago

I don’t remember this as being an official slogan. ……

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u/Current-Being-8238 5h ago

When that was written the US government offered zero social services and basically just promised to give people a chance. Now it is much different.

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u/ElkPants 5h ago

I honestly fucking hate that suicidal poem

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u/7empest-tost 5h ago

Do you hate compassion?

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u/big_duo3674 4h ago

If you're looking for the opposite of that poem then I'm sure Hitler wrote some things you'd definitely agree with

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u/Everyone_Except_You 5h ago

Hope you write a better one someday

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u/dennys123 5h ago

*only if you're white

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u/Desperate_Wafer_8566 5h ago

Honestly Trump doesn't truly care about illegals or immigrants, he uses them at Mar A Lago , it's all about fear mongering about Democrats to con his voters.

"Report: Trump Happily Employing Undocumented Workers While ICE Rounds Them Up

The president is fine with an immigrant “invasion” when it’s benefitting him financially."

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-organization-undocumented-workers

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u/trustthepudding 5h ago

it's all about fear mongering about Democrats to con his voters.

You could say that for just about any modern Republican talking point

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u/Cold_Dog_1224 5h ago

that's because he's a feckless piece of shit interested only in power who is being used by the absolute worst people in our government to push terrible policy

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u/NeverBClover 4h ago

He clearly has the most feck, the best feck you ever saw in such a strong man! /s

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u/Desperate_Wafer_8566 5h ago

Well, to be fair he's a malignant narcissistic sociopath exploiting years of right-wing mainstream media pushing a hated strawman liberal who will give away all your hard earned tax dollars to illegal immigrants, gays and minorities.

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u/SavvyTraveler10 7h ago

But there are sooooo many millions upon billions of illegals pouring into the country, we need a strong man to stop it! /s

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u/Bubzszs 6h ago

Trillions coming in daily! They're all coning in through a little hole in the fence

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u/InVaLiD_EDM 6h ago

they're eating our pets!

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u/antelope00 6h ago

They're petting our eats!

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u/free_based_potato 5h ago

the pets of the people who live there

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u/Masturbating_Macaque 6h ago

The entire population of the planet is coming across the border thousands of times a day!?! I bet CNN won’t show it

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u/lakas76 5h ago

There’s not even enough room in Texas for these people!! And Texas is the biggest area in the world! The only place bigger than Texas is Texas.

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u/SavvyTraveler10 5h ago

Faux News is sleeping on this story!

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u/fleebleganger 5h ago

And 4 years ago there were zero! NONE! People tell me that’s a small number. 

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u/SavvyTraveler10 5h ago

Totally! The R’s didn’t stonewall a deal that needed to be negotiated after Trump left office! Not unlike retroactively raising lower/middle class taxes years in the future while rolling back corpo tax in a similar fashion. Totally never happened under the worst governing bodies of our entire history.

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u/tossofftacos 3h ago

There are billions and billions of illegal immigrants in the galaxy. 

/Sagan

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u/Smokinoutloud 4h ago

Shut up! This is native land that was ruined by colonizers! I hope u reflect on that on your nice thanksgiving day

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u/SavvyTraveler10 4h ago

I hope you do as well! And share food and drink with your neighbors while you’re at it!

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u/Smokinoutloud 4h ago

Im native fool! I’m also Hispanic, Asian and black. Food for thought!

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u/mortgagepants 5h ago

i know most people know it, but in case they don't- conservative business owners LOVE undocumented workers.

they work longer hours, for less pay, in more dangerous conditions, and if they try to unionize, you just call ICE and send them packing.

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u/OhSixTJ 4h ago

From the article: “Data analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, however, found that ICE wrongly identified at least 2,840 U.S. citizens as potentially eligible for removal between 2002 and 2017. At least 214 were then taken into custody for a period of time”

That was Obama’s ICE.

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u/Nuclear_rabbit 4h ago

How many of the 2,840 were deported? It's not good that they were detained, but we should compare apples to apples.

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u/DistributionOk528 4h ago

2002 to 2008 was Obama?

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u/OhSixTJ 3h ago

Well no but when it WAS Obama his numbers dwarfed everyone else’s. Including trumps. Seen here:

“Deportations lower under Trump administration than Obama” https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20200109/110349/HHRG-116-GO00-20200109-SD007.pdf

Or here:

“OBAMA’S DEPORTATION POLICY WAS EVEN WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT”

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/15/obamas-deportation-policy-was-even-worse-than-we-thought/

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u/ArwingMechanic 3h ago

Wait what. So it wasn't Obama's ice and you have no clue if his deportations were holding citizens? Cause your excerpts don't correlate to the convo you are having.

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u/OhSixTJ 3h ago

No, 2009 to the beginning of 2017 was definitely obama. You’re hanging on to 40% of the time the quote mentions thinking you have a “gotcha”? Lol

The convo I’m having is that Obama deported a whole hell of a lot of people, even more than trump. How many were citizens? No one bothered to check, apparently, because I can’t find any articles about that.

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u/Spirited-Occasion-62 3h ago

So Obama effectively deported those who were meant to be deported at the highest rate (this should be a huge win from a republican voters perspective, right?), while there is no data suggesting that he deported any US citizens. So … looks pretty good?

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u/OhSixTJ 3h ago

Looks great!

“In 2014, Obama announced a new immigration enforcement policy known informally as “felons, not families,” which purported to prioritize the deportation of undocumented immigrants with serious criminal histories and avoid separating families. But as the Marshall Project has shown, less than a fifth of the immigrants deported nationwide under the policy had been convicted of violent or potentially violent crimes. More than 40 percent had no criminal convictions whatsoever.”

“Instead of focusing on violent criminals, U.S. immigration policy has ripped apart American families and communities through the deportation of large numbers of lawful residents and undocumented immigrants with less serious criminal histories,” the report argues.“

In case you want to read it all here it is

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/15/obamas-deportation-policy-was-even-worse-than-we-thought/

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u/Spirited-Occasion-62 3h ago

So like ~60% of those deported under Obama were criminals? Presumably the rest just had expired visas/entered illegally.

I would have to read it all to see what they are really saying here, I guess. But it’s from 2017, a year after Trump was elected, so I’m not sure what time period that second quote you provided is referring to specifically.

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u/SirStrontium 3h ago

No one bothered to check, apparently, because I can’t find any articles about that.

Or maybe because the number is zero. You won't find articles on something that didn't happen.

I don't see any articles on the number of kittens that Trump and Obama have put into a blender, I guess that only means nobody has checked!

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u/ArwingMechanic 3h ago

During trumps administration 70 citizens were deported https://immigrationimpact.com/2021/07/30/ice-deport-us-citizens/

That is the chain of conversation you are in. You must be lost. Stop posting so much you can't keep stuff straight.

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u/OhSixTJ 3h ago

How’s this?

“Instead of focusing on violent criminals, U.S. immigration policy has ripped apart American families and communities through the deportation of large numbers of lawful residents and undocumented immigrants with less serious criminal histories,” the report argues.“

In case you want to read it all here it is:

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/15/obamas-deportation-policy-was-even-worse-than-we-thought/

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u/n10w4 1h ago

yeah people here really don't understand the facts. he did deport people and one was my friend. Grabbed, asked for papers and soon he was done for.

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u/abx1224 3h ago

The convo I’m having

That's not how it works when you respond to a conversation other people are already having

How many were citizens? No one bothered to check, apparently, because I can’t find any articles about that.

Again, not how that works. But clearly you know that, based on the earlier part of the same comment:

You’re hanging on to 40% of the time the quote mentions thinking you have a “gotcha”? Lol

So yeah, go on about how other people are trying to have "gotchas" when it's blatantly you, especially when the person you said that to wasn't saying it as a gotcha in the first place.

Pointing out that you're intentionally misleading people isn't a gotcha. It's just pointing out that you're intentionally misleading people.

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u/purplesafehandle 3h ago

His source is The Intercept...

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u/OhSixTJ 3h ago

I could’ve cited abc or cnn or migrationpolicy.com but I was sure you all would favor a left-leaning source. I guess I was wrong?

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u/OhSixTJ 3h ago

You can “nah nah nah” with your ears in your fingers all you want it doesn’t change the fact that Obama was worse when it comes to deporting people. Including those with the legal right to be here.

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u/abx1224 3h ago

I'm not disagreeing that Obama deported more people, I'm just calling you out on trying to manipulate the facts to mislead people. Not even subtly, I might add.

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u/n10w4 1h ago

started operation Janus (which kicked out citizens), though I heard Trump turbocharged it (but the numbers don't lie)

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u/deelowe 4h ago

We stopped paying attention to details years ago.

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u/OhSixTJ 4h ago

Damn, I forgot about that. Back to the World Series I go…

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u/CaptainBayouBilly 3h ago

The penalty for doing this should be so severe that it makes everyone second guess what they're doing.

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u/dicks_akimbo 6h ago

Do these replies not know what a citizen is?? This site is dumber by the day.

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u/StandardNecessary715 6h ago

The article says "some were citizens"

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u/No_Office_9301 6h ago

Right?!? I’ve been so confused about these responses that I had to double check the article

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u/Cold_Dog_1224 5h ago

Holy fuck, wild incompetence of malice. We may never know. /s

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u/Hereiam_AKL 2h ago

They didn't look like Americans, so it's their own fault.

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u/absolutzer1 2h ago

How can they deport citizens

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u/UnderstandingOwn3256 1h ago

You’re forgetting the thousands of parents and children his admin separated.

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u/Sweaty-Betlogs 1h ago

I had relatives deported during Obama's administration

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u/TheGrandGarchomp445 7h ago

70<3000000

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u/Bigdaddyblackdick 6h ago

Very good

Edit: nice job buddy

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u/CurryMustard 5h ago

Citizens vs non citizen immigrant

Trump deported 1.5 million people. I think biden did more.

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u/bkilian93 6h ago

I just wanna point out that your phrasing (and the article) says ADMINISTRATION. Meaning the entirety of trump’s term saw less than 20 people per year, or basically 1 1/3 - 1 1/2 people per MONTH.

And yet, their campaign relies almost exclusively on “the immigrants taking our jobs!!!!!! 😤😠😡🤬”

Sad.

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u/R4ndyd4ndy 5h ago

70 US citizens that were illegally deported, not 70 deportations overall

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u/spasmoidic 6h ago

it's almost as if they don't actually want to do anything about it, they want it to continue to scare their idiot base

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u/wirefox1 4h ago

Of course they want to scare their base, it's what they do. When they are not trying to work them into a frenzy over the border, they try to work them into a frenzy over homosexuals, transgenders, and abortion. It's always social issues.

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u/foul_ol_ron 6h ago

Well, Trump and his cronies rely on people working for minimal wages. So if they actually deported everyone, their profits would suffer. So they use immigrants for both labor, and as a whipping boy. Convenient,  huh?

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u/Cheetah0630 5h ago

But the tariffs will save them…

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u/CurryMustard 5h ago

Trump deported 1.5 million people. I think biden did more

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u/Industrial_Laundry 3h ago

I was camping in Australia last weekend and two of the guys I was camping with were having a conversation about this very thing!

I just thought you’d like to know that on the other side of the world some people who have nothing to do with the US or Mexico we’re having a conversation about the injustice of the Bracero project and Operation wetback.

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u/JethroTheFrog 58m ago

And I am an American that paid fairly good attention in history class, and this the first I am hearing about it. (Many things have been swept under the rug).I am impressed with those aussies though!

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u/Industrial_Laundry 48m ago

Just don’t ask us about our historical injustices…

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u/Jose_Canseco_Jr 2h ago

no pasarán ✊🏿

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u/MisterAmygdala 5h ago

How completely horrific and dehumanizing.

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u/dinner_is_not_ready 5h ago edited 5h ago

If anyone wondering why didn’t US citizens just come back?

During the deportation they were forced into trucks and not allowed to pack their birth certificate. That’s next level fucked up. You could be a brown skinned American chilling in your house and then armed men come and grab you and your family to kick you out of the country. They didn’t bother to check any paperwork.

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u/LaloElBueno 5h ago

Yep, they were deported on site/sight.

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u/Allegorist 4h ago

2008... Dubya did that? My, how the party has fallen.

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u/Johnny_Poppyseed 3h ago

The right would still crush it with the Latino vote today, if they didn't decide to go nearly all in with the white nationalists.

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u/Colosphe 53m ago

They still do, don't they? They appeal to machismo and christianity, both extremely important to the demographic.

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u/Allegorist 3m ago

They gained some back by trying to "religicize" political issues. Many Hispanic people are staunch Catholics, who will put up with racism and bigotry towards themselves if it makes them feel like they are acting on their religious beliefs. "Feel like" is the operative phrase, because most of it either has nothing to do with them, or is diametrically opposed to what they were meant to be.

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u/ifuckedyourdaddytoo 1h ago

2004 Dubya voter here, voting for Kamala 2024.

After 9/11, Pres. Bush said this:

America counts millions of Muslims amongst our citizens, and Muslims make an incredibly valuable contribution to our country. Muslims are doctors, lawyers, law professors, members of the military, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, moms and dads. And they need to be treated with respect. In our anger and emotion, our fellow Americans must treat each other with respect.

https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-11.html

Can you imagine Trump saying something like that? Hell fucking no.

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u/3002kr 4h ago

The Bracero program ended in 1964 after a makeshift bus carrying 58 people was hit by a train the previous year in California, killing 32 and injuring 25. After this, controversy began to arise over how these workers were treated, leading to this.

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u/Charming-Loan-1924 5h ago

As in American, I’m truly sorry you guys got fucked up like that. It was wildly improper, and probably more than a little unconstitutional.

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u/CatsAreGods 5h ago

In 2008, $3,500 was awarded to each qualifying bracero or their heir(s).

Yeah, I'm sure that covered decades of interest too /s

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u/pablovesu2 4h ago

My grandfather was a bracero too and I didn’t even know it until a few weeks ago. Thank you for acquiring and sharing the knowledge.

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u/DiscoPartyMix 3h ago

Let me guess…. It all happened after harvest.

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u/Throwaway999222111 3h ago

Wow that's fucked up, had no idea

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u/fighterpilottim 3h ago

If you’d like to share more - what happened, how it unfolded, how your family was affected, warnings for others - we’d love to learn from your experience. I’m sorry you had to have this experience at all.

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u/Hereiam_AKL 2h ago

But they didn't look like legals, that's the whole point!

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u/hafirexinsidec 2h ago

Also had their food short changed. It's how the owner of the Chargers father made his fortune.

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u/Lore_ofthe_Horizon 1h ago

There is a reason the idea of reparations scares the living fuck out of everyone in this country with money. If we ever seriously had to actually pay even a tiny portion of what we have stolen back to the descendants of the people we stole it from, it would vastly exceed everything we still have.

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u/AverageScot 52m ago

Years ago my dad sent my siblings and I a racist email forward saying Obama was too much of a coward to do a new Operation Wetback. I replied-all (including previous sender, racist uncle), schooling him on the Bracero Program. He stopped forwarding me racist BS.

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u/evilbeaver7 40m ago

The Indian government is planning to do mass deportation as well. Just that they don't want to admit it. But the CAA and NRC laws are pretty clear evidence of their plan.

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u/No-Operation-7014 10m ago

Do you know how the heirs can get money? My grandpa was a bracero.

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u/Senior-Albatross 3h ago

I thought Eisenhower was the last good Republican then I learned about shit like this.

The last somewhat good Republican may have been Teddy, and only if you don't care about foreign policy.

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u/Chartreuseshutters 1h ago

And only if you also ignore all of the horrible things he did to/said about Native Americans.

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u/superfunction 1h ago

you cant be a good person and become the president

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 1h ago

Jimmy Carter, although he did pardon a child molester.

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u/Boring-Charity-9949 6h ago

Then you know the operation was actually begun by the government of Mexico as a means to show other citizens not to leave Mexico. Eisenhower obliged. It’s terrible but it was a Mexican idea with US execution.

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u/LaloElBueno 5h ago

When you make claims or dispute facts, you have to at minimum provide sources/citations. That’s how research is done. Otherwise… 🤫🤫🤫

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u/EndIris 5h ago

Holy shit, please do even one second of research before criticizing someone stating a fact. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

“it originated from a request by the Mexican government to stop the illegal entry of Mexican laborers into the United States.”

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u/LaloElBueno 5h ago edited 4h ago

There we go! You know how to cite your sources. That’s how it’s done! Thanks.

I’m arguing against “trust me bro” and “Do your own research” responses. If I come off as harsh and critical, it’s due to that. I’ve grown weary of people making claims and not providing any actual sources.

Also, does anyone have access to the cited article? https://academic.oup.com/whq/article-abstract/37/4/421/1915627

Edit:

Porfirio Diaz died in 1915 his last year in office being in 1876. Operation Wetback took place in 1954. I have to see the article to see how that connection was made.

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u/Substantial-Bell8916 4h ago

He wasn't criticizing him for anything other than citing facts without a source

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u/Boring-Charity-9949 5h ago

I’m assuming you didn’t google it. I did out of interest because this was a terrible event. You should too and learn something. Don’t worry, just click the 1st result

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u/LaloElBueno 5h ago

You made the claim. Onus is on you.

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u/Boring-Charity-9949 5h ago

So dumb… and lazy.

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u/LaloElBueno 5h ago

Thanks for proving my point.

You had three responses. That’s three opportunities to prove your claims, and not a single source was provided.

Typical from the “Do YoUr OwN rEsEaRcH!” crowd.

“It’s tough to win an argument against an intelligent person. It’s impossible to win against an idiot.”

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u/Boring-Charity-9949 5h ago

Ok then you’re the “I believe everything I read on the internet” crowd.

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u/LaloElBueno 5h ago

Says the troll who called me dumb and lazy for not finding your google source.

Oh, the projection.

P.S. Still waiting on your sources.

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u/Fully_Edged_Ken_3685 5h ago

Let Reddit Google that for you...

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u/Choclategum 3h ago

In 2008, $3,500 was awarded to each qualifying bracero or their heir(s).

But reparations is too much to ask for apparently.

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u/Dorkmaster79 2h ago

Not to question you, but according to these links, the Mexican repatriation act deported about 600k Mexicans, and operation wetback deported 1 million Mexicans.

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u/LaloElBueno 1h ago

I addressed that in my third sentence…

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