Operation Wetback Mass Deportation Uses Military Tactics, Human Rights Violations
U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell launches Operation Wetback, a mass deportation initiative using military-style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants. Created by Joseph May Swing, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general heading the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the operation targets …
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Joseph May Swing
Herbert Brownell
Immigration and Naturalization Service
immigration-policy
mass-deportation
human-rights-violations
militarization
racial-profiling
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