Operation Wetback was not something to emulate. It was brutal and racist. Let me pause to define racist clearly. Targeting latino illegals for being illegal is NOT racist. Wetback, however, gave too much power and too little supervision to the locals, particularly in So. Cal.and South Texas, and a lot Mexican American citizens who had angered the local powers that be got the boot. The way to do this very necessary thing is not just to target illegals, its to target the ones who hire them. Start putting CEO's, contractors, lawn service owners and restraunt and hotel owners in jail, and the jobs will dry up. Its like the drug war. You can arrest all the pot dealers you want, there will always be another one aslong s the demand is there. Its only if you have the will power to put your neighbor's kid, or for that matter your neighbor, in prison that you'll dry up the demand that creates the supply. The question is, are you willing to do it? Haul otherwise law abiding folks off to jail? In the case of drugs, I say no. As to hiring illegals, who create a tax drain, security risk and undermine our culture and language, I say yes. Mow your own damn lawn, and pay that bus boy a decent wage and charge me an extra $.75 for my burger.
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