Recent Posts

Pages: [1] 2 3 4 ... 10
1
National/Breaking News / Re: Outrage erupts when authorities toss 2 farmers in prison on 30-day sentences
« Last post by Kamaji on Today at 09:16:18 pm »
Quote from: DB on Today at 08:15:22 pm
That law doesn't include any language about ultrasound.

The Fourth Amendment doesn't include any language about emails - are a person's emails fair game for the government?
2
Illinois / Re: Chicago teachers' $50B demands include pay hikes, abortions, migrant accommodation
« Last post by Kamaji on Today at 09:15:12 pm »
:facepalm2:
3
Immigration/Border / The Truth About Operation Wetback
« Last post by Bigun on Today at 09:11:20 pm »
The Truth About Operation Wetback

By Ian Smith, May 5, 2024

Seventy years ago in 1954, immigration authorities created a mass deportation program in the face of out-of-control intrusions at our southern border. Then, like now, the gravity of the problem called for a dramatic policy response. Unlike now, the federal government rapidly responded, creating a system of roaming “deportation parties” concentrated on border-area factories and farms, netting tens of thousands of illegals in its first few days. The model, which would establish Border Patrol and ICE as we know them today, would later be dubbed, “Operation Wetback.”

Intensely reviled by the globalist Left even to this day, the program is recurringly attacked in mainstream outlets and scholarly journals as yet another blot on America’s trail-of-tears history. As something of an immigration scholar myself, one of the better examples of academic treatment I’ve come across is a 2006 paper from UCLA African-American Studies professor, Kelly Lytle Hernández. As she shows, Operation Wetback offers plenty of guidance on how to deal with the current border invasion, especially in reclaiming deportations and border control as essential to both receiving and source countries alike.

No doubt surprisingly to some, Prof. Hernández writes in the piece that “cross-border research [into the program] transforms the typically nation-bound and time-bound narrative of Operation Wetback into an unexpected story of evolving binational efforts at migration control” -- that is, “binational” efforts between the U.S. and Mexico such as “collaborative deportations, coordinated raids, and shared surveillance.” Few would know or at least admit that Operation Wetback was indeed a “binational effort” and essentially co-created by the Mexican government; such is the degree of disinformation and slanted revisionism of the program. As Hernández recounts in her piece, due to Mexican agribusiness facing upward wage pressure from what had grown into a mass outflow of domestic laborers by the mid-1940s, Mexican officials met with State and Justice department officials and successfully negotiated for things like an increase in U.S. Border Patrol officers on the border.

Capturing the sentiment on the other side of the border at the time, Hernández writes: “Mexican newspapers, politicians, and activists all tried to convince [would-be illegals] to stay in Mexico… remind[ing] them of their duty to participate in the economic development of Mexico by working south of the border.” So patriotic, nationally-minded, and focused on curbing the exodus, Mexican officials “attempted to directly interrupt illegal labor migration to the United States” (think of their simple refusal to deport U.S.-bound migrants today) while some in government even called for “turning intransigents among them into ‘forced labor’ within Mexico.” (Emphasis mine).

In response to this emigration crisis, “
  • fficials of the two countries rushed memos and agreements back and forth regarding how they could independently and collaboratively control the flow of undocumented Mexican immigration…” What eventuated was “officials in each country publicly announc[ing] that the US Border Patrol would soon launch Operation Wetback…” On-the-ground cooperation was manifested with officials like U.S. Chief Patrol Inspecter Fletcher Rawls and his Mexican counterpart Alberto “Hand of Steel” Moreno, who, Hernández says, showed the “expanded possibilities of policing and punishing unsanctioned migration when US and Mexican officers cooperated along the border.”


What did the program look like? One of the earliest deportation parties netted a group of illegals over 6,900 in number in McAllen, Texas -- deportations have been as low as 59,000 in the current administration. Apprehensions of deportable aliens quickly rose from 12,000 to 30,000. Later, over 50,000 aliens from central Mexico alone were airlifted home, marking the beginning of what we today call “ICE Air.”

As a result, illegals began to avoid intruding into Texas, choosing to go through California’s border instead. In response, immigration authorities delivered our first border wall: 4,500 feet of 10 feet-high chain link fencing (enough to force circumventers to enter dangerous desert lands and mountains). While locals on the Mexican side resisted, Mexican solders were actually deployed to patrol and protect the fence build-up. Mexican authorities even began deploying shaming tactics on their own deported illegals, for instance, by shaving their heads before releasing them back into Mexico.

Today, mass emigration is just as bad for Mexico (and the rest of Latin America) as it was then. Likely more so, in fact. How much would the obscenely fatalistic and kleptocratic narco-state reverse its chronic malaise if the tens of millions of Mexican people who have invaded our own country over the last several decades had actually been forced to stay put and stew in the sea of Mexico’s failed policies?

 excerpt, rest at link above
4
Elections 2024 / Re: Report: Trump and DeSantis Meet in Miami, Talk Fundraising
« Last post by DB on Today at 09:08:13 pm »
Quote from: libertybele on Today at 09:02:17 pm
Your posts strongly suggest that you are delusional and wear orange colored glasses....I won't go any further.

I am well aware of the history.  Disingenuous? I have a few kind words for you, but I respect this forum and the mods.

Cruz in 2011:


https://youtu.be/T0h3Mu8BbjM
5
Politics/Government / Re: Inside Trump’s plan to deport ‘nearly 20 million’ illegal migrants from the US
« Last post by DB on Today at 09:05:30 pm »
Here's what Cruz said about illegal immigration, long before Trump said a word about it, in 2011:


http://youtu.be/T0h3Mu8BbjM
6
World News / Re: Beautiful Eva Vlaardingerbroek Delivers Historic Speech “The Great Replacement Reality” at CPAC
« Last post by Fishrrman on Today at 09:05:23 pm »
Thanks for posting, mountaineer.

Just archived this within the past hour or so:
======================
From X (Twitter)
Laurence Fox Lozza Fox

The Mayor of London is a Muslim.
The mayor of Birmingham is a Muslim.
The Mayor of Leeds is Muslim.
The Mayor of Blackburn - Muslim.
The mayor of Sheffield is a Muslim.
The mayor of Oxford is a Muslim.
The mayor of Luton is a Muslim.
The mayor of Oldham is Muslim.
The mayor of Rochdale is Muslim

All this was achieved by only 4 million Muslims out of 66 million people in England:

Today there are over 3,000 mosques in England.
There are over 130 sharia courts.
There are more than 50 Sharia Councils.
78 percent of Muslim women do not work, receive state support + free accommodation.
63 percent of Muslims do not work, receive state support + free housing.
State-supported Muslim families with an average of 6 to 8 children receive free accommodation. Now every school in the UK is required to teach lessons about Islam.
======================
7
Editorial/Opinion/Blogs / Re: Shock survey reveals huge number of Americans see another civil war within five years
« Last post by Bigun on Today at 09:04:10 pm »
Quote from: Gefn on Today at 08:58:23 pm
A shocking new poll revealed that over 40 percent of Americans believe their country could be torn apart by another civil war within the next five years.

Rasmussen Reports conducted a national telephone and online survey, which revealed 41 per cent of likely US voters think a second civil war is on the horizon, with 16 per cent saying one in the next five years would be very likely.

On the other hand, 49 per cent of participants did not believe a civil war in the next five years is likely to occur, and 20 per cent responded not likely at all.

It also showed that this is a partisan issue, with 37 per cent of voters agreeing that a civil war is more likely to happen if Joe Biden is re-elected this year.

By comparison, 25 per cent saw the conflict being more likely under Donald Trump, and 30 per cent said it would not make much difference who the president is.


https://www.the-express.com/news/us-news/136485/america-civil-war-five-years-poll

It's definitely coming. Whether or not it happens before I leave I cannot tell.
8
Elections 2024 / Re: Report: Trump and DeSantis Meet in Miami, Talk Fundraising
« Last post by libertybele on Today at 09:02:17 pm »
Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on Today at 08:58:26 pm
Are you seriously trying to compare this built in 2006:



With this:????




I'm not sure what you're looking for with "next" @libertybele  ---- But, I'm kinda hoping ""next" includes you stop telling folks how worried you are about illegal immigration because you're posts strongly suggest you don't understand the history of the battle or your concern is disingenuous.

Your posts strongly suggest that you are delusional and wear orange colored glasses....I won't go any further.

I am well aware of the history.  Disingenuous? I have a few kind words for you, but I respect this forum and the mods.
9
Editorial/Opinion/Blogs / Re: 'London Has Fallen': Pro-Muslim Immigration Mayor Saddiq Khan Is Reelected for Third Term
« Last post by banddag on Today at 09:01:30 pm »
Western European countries right now are only 5% Muslim and most will not be Muslim majority until 2150

Anything can happen until then. Young Muslims are shedding their religion at huge rates and want to live like Westerners

Saudi Arabia now allows women to vote, drive a car by themselves and can enter a front door of a restaurant by themselves. The strict clothing is also going to Western wear.

Dubai, UAE, Qatar etc are now almost westernized.
Alcohol is now allowed to be sold to foreigners only and must drink it at home or hotel

10
Elections 2024 / Re: Report: Trump and DeSantis Meet in Miami, Talk Fundraising
« Last post by corbe on Today at 08:59:59 pm »
   In spite of his making it the cornerstone of his 16 election, WE are 10X worse now in spite of him being in charge half of that time.   The Trumpers are wrong on two major accounts; he is just a mediocre businessman (6 bankruptcies) and is a full blown politician.
Pages: [1] 2 3 4 ... 10