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... The Trump Administration is substantially off pace to "carry out the largest deportation operation in American history."

President Donald Trump set the goal for his Administration to exceed President Dwight Eisenhower's 1954 deportation program.

Eisenhower Administration Statistical Overview

In 1954 the Eisenhower Administration carried out an unprecedented deportation surge.

The operation

The Eisenhower Administration officially called it "Operation Wetback," using a derogatory term for Mexican nationals illegally crossing the Rio Grande into the United States.

responded to widespread problems from lack of compliance with a 1951 agreement between Mexico and the United States, one of a series of similar programs between 1942 and 1964, known as the Mexican Agricultural Labor Program or, colloquially, as the Bracero Program (bracero being Spanish for manual laborer). ...