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Another thing Obama did to encourage an illegal invasion and children too swarm our Southern border..was after Congress failed to pass the Dream Act, Obama in 2012  initiated a program to defer deportations,for childhood arrivals ..about 2 million of them..

They could obtain valid Social Security numbers and apply for driver’s licenses, professional certificates and financial aid for college. ...

Last year he had his Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency issue a new policy directive directing all ICE personnel to use prosecutorial discretion.. in favor of parents at any stage of an enforcement proceeding.. and leniency in favor of parents is “preferable" … in other words as long as an illegal immigrant can show they have a child in the United States, they can stay....

This is Obama's creeping amnesty ..

Consuela ,,,you hear that ?  Get those kids up there...and we're in like a fat rat in a cheese factory .....

It is more fortitude than anything else.  Obviously this has been and issue and more or less taken care of before.  If the leaders had the same mentality it could be done almost the exact way again.  Instead both parties have not learned from the previous mistakes.

Oh--I think you are absolutely correct. 

This is what I was referring to.  This is what I have been saying---beef up border a tad--crack down on the hiring---do some roundups---and by and large it will take care of itself.  People do not realize how bad it once was.  Especially at a time where heap of regular folks did the immigrant type work.  Check this link out and tell me what you think.  It gives a very general idea of what Ike did.

https://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html

Then on June 17, 1954, what was called "Operation Wetback" began. Because political resistance was lower in California and Arizona, the roundup of aliens began there. Some 750 agents swept northward through agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day. By the end of July, over 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states. Another 488,000, fearing arrest, had fled the country.

By mid-July, the crackdown extended northward into Utah, Nevada, and Idaho, and eastward to Texas.

By September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 illegals had left the Lone Star State voluntarily.

first, we probably shouldn't call it operation wetback.    second, the obvious problem which the article mentions but i'm not sure it fully appreciates is we have so many more today, maybe around 15 million.  1,000 a day sounds like a lot and i'm sure it was in 1954, but it's really not with today's numbers, especially considering that it's fairly futile when they can and do come back./  also, they were a lot newer in 1954 than today.  i think that's relevant becayuse today many of them have been here a few decades, meaning they have kids and families here.  the article talks about many of them going back voluntarily but that's much less likely when they have kids and other family integrated here now.  of course that's another reason why immigration is so much more complicated as time passes.  another issue is back then, i assume, they were mostly concentrated in CA, TX and AZ.  now, they are all over the country in large numbers making them much more difficult to track down and send back. 750 agents was probably pretty good back then for a state or two but spread them out now and they aren't getting much done.  and as we all know, the US has not devoted a lot of resources into the INS (now ICE) to deal with this expanding problem.

Unlike today, Mexicans caught in the roundup were not simply released at the border, where they could easily reenter the US. To discourage their return, Swing arranged for buses and trains to take many aliens deep within Mexico before being set free.

1. End the current practice of taking captured Mexican aliens to the border and releasing them. Instead, deport them deep into Mexico, where return to the US would be more costly.

2. Crack down hard on employers who hire illegals. Without jobs, the aliens won't come.

i guess these are the solutions.  i think number one might help a little but their ability to come back is much more streamlined than it was back then.

but of course we can stop at #2.  great idea, but we all know that is a pipe dream.  our politicians have known employers have been hiring these guys for a long time ensuring they'll stay here and make big money (for them) rather than go home and make pennies.  our government won't truly punish these employers for hiring illegals on a large scale.  that's just not how things work here in our system where companies are more important than people as long as elections cost as much as they do.