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Operation Wetback
January 3, 2024
Tori Otten
DeSantis Turns Next-Level Extremist, Promises to Bring Back Operation Wetback
DeSantis is promising to bring back Eisenhower’s racist “Operation Wetback.”
April 25, 2016
MagazineJeet Heer
Operation Wetback Revisited
The horrifying story of the program Donald Trump wants to emulate.

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