The horror of Trump’s ambition to surpass Eisenhower’s deportation record
In response, Eisenhower launched America’s largest mass deportation in 1954, named with a racist slur: “ Operation Wetback .” The operation was led by Border Patrol head Harlon B. Carter, who, as a teenager in 1931, was found guilty of murdering a 15-year-old Hispanic boy (the conviction was later thrown out on a technicality).