Joseph May Swing

Operation Wetback Mass Deportation Uses Military Tactics, Human Rights Violations

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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 …

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