President-elect Donald Trump has promised to carry out the largest deportation project in American history, using the ...

And it’s this example that many on the Trump team are citing as they seek to implement a mass deportation program. But why this campaign from 1954, when there are more recent attempts to draw ...

A 1950s federal campaign wasn't the first or the last racist campaign to hound an entire community of Mexican Americans. The ...

Arizona wants to lease the closed Marana prison site to the feds or a private contractor for $1 a year so it can be used as ...

President Dwight Eisenhower's notorious Operation Wetback in 1954 took matters to a whole new level. A former general, Eisenhower hired military brass to use military tactics not just at the ...

Eisenhower," a reference to 1954's "Operation Wetback," — a racist term used to refer to migrants who crossed the Rio Grande River. The U.S. government estimates that the effort rounded up more than a ...

It was squarely within the mythical 1950s that the U.S. government launched the most public effort to deport large numbers of undocumented Mexican migrants: Operation Wetback. And it’s this ...

If my grandfather was living in the U.S. legally, why was he hiding? In 1954, the U.S. government launched Operation Wetback, a campaign that took its name from an ethnic slur, with dramatic raids ...