http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_WetbackThe effort began in California and Arizona, and coordinated 1075 Border Patrol agents, along with state and local police agencies, to mount an aggressive crackdown. Tactics employed included going as far as systematic police sweeps of Mexican-American neighborhoods, and random stops and ID checks of "Mexican-looking" people in a region with many Native Americans and native Hispanics. In some cases, illegal immigrants were deported along with their American-born minor dependent children. Some 750 agents targeted agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions per day. By the end of July, over 50,000 immigrants were caught in the two states. An estimated 488,000 illegal immigrants are claimed to have left voluntarily, for fear of being apprehended. By September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and the INS estimated that 500,000 to 700,000 had left Texas of their own accord. To discourage illicit re-entry, buses and trains took many deportees deep within Mexican territory prior to releasing them. Tens of thousands more were deported by two chartered ships, the Emancipation and the Mercurio. The ships ferried them from Port Isabel, Texas, to Veracruz, Mexico, more than 500 miles (800 kilometers) to the south. Some were taken as far as 1,000 miles. Deportation by sea was ended after seven deportees jumped overboard from the Mercurio and drowned, provoking a mutiny that led to a public outcry in Mexico.
Here's another one that meant exactly jackshit;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracero_Program
And another;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gatekeeper
And another;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_Movement
And another;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prop_187
And this;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta … noni-Ponce
And now we have the giant festering wound that is the leper cousin to our South.
I know what my vision of immigration reform is, and that is a temporary worker program.
What's yours?
