Both.
The Wilson/Coolidge Era was nightmarish for immigrants, with a host of laws targeting East Asian migrants and displacing uncountable numbers of industrial workers particularly along the West Coast.
Eisenhower’s Operation Wetback set off a wave of police terror along the Gulf Coast, crippled the agricultural economy, and killed hundreds of migrants forced into transit.
The current border policy funnels hundreds of thousands of migrants through an inhospitality Texas/Arizona desert region that’s killed around 10k-50k people in the last decade.
None of it actually curbs immigration. It all just becomes a black market affair, affording employers a tool to depress wages and cartels an opportunity to press-gang border residents into cattle slavery.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m pretty sure there was a damaging mass deportation during the Great Depression that deported mostly american citizens to Mexico.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Operation Wetback. Yes, that’s what they called it
Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The Dark Ages truly are still here
DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Operation Wetback?
Well see ya later, Melania
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe that’s his plan. He doesn’t like the prenup and wants to marry that ghoul Loomer so he’s doing this to get her deported and the marriage annulled. Then he’ll use government money to put on a huge wedding and try to have a baby immediately. Everyone knows if you’re president when you have a kid the government is on the hook for support. Unlimited money!!!
It’s 12-D chess!!!1!
eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
it also happened a lot before operation wetback.
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I feel like to the people doing the deporting this time, they wouldn’t care. The point is to be damaging.