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The massive deportation campaign that Trump often cites in his campaign rallies was conducted under the Eisenhower administration in the summer of 1954, with a pejorative, racist name attached to it.
"Following the Eisenhower model, we will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history," Trump said at a September rally last year in Ankeny, Iowa.
But what the Trump campaign is proposing is not an Eisenhower-style crackdown, said Michael Clemens, a professor in the Department of Economics at George Mason University.
"That policy was instituted hand-in-hand with a crucial other arm of the policy," he said " which was that lawful work pathways for Mexicans to the U.S. were nearly tripled at the same time as the mass deportations.
"We've heard zero about substantial increases in lawful migration pathways from the people who are now talking about an Eisenhower-style crackdown," Clemens said. "What they're proposing is not an Eisenhower-style crackdown " it is something that the Eisenhower administration understood would not work and therefore it did not do."
Additionally, the Eisenhower program was not as successful as thought.
The Einshower administration claimed that it deported 1 million people back to Mexico, but the real number is a couple hundred thousand, said Eladio Bobadilla, an assistant history professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
"It wasn't really about getting rid of immigrants in any real sense," he said. "It was a way to sell to the American public that the problem had been solved."
While one agency of the Eisenhower administration was deporting Mexicans " and often U.S. citizens of Mexican descent " another agency was sometimes bringing those same workers back in through the so-called Bracero program, which was created through an executive order by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1942.
States and local governments also worked in tandem with the 1950s deportation operation, something unlikely to happen under a second Trump administration, said David Bier, the director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.
"You also had the cooperation of the employers in those areas, because the Eisenhower administration was totally explicit that all the people that we're deporting, you're gonna get workers back legally through the Bracero guest worker program," said Bier.
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Trumpy is also planning on invoking the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 in case you were not aware of that either.
