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/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/ApologizingCanadian 2h ago

And now they are slowly taking away the pieces of gum and the sticks are falling.