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    Operation Wetback was more recent. It’s called wetback because our government had a sweepstakes to name it, we even had events like fairs to celebrate. People could come get some cotton candy, ride the rides, and see Mexicans in cages. Then they’d be loaded up by truck or even helicopter and deposited somewhere deep into Mexico.

    And of course it wasn’t just “illegal aliens.” In operation Wetback, they all can go.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

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      39 hours ago

      If you hadn’t brought this to my attention, I was going to joke that they’d name it after some slur but here we are

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      Could I get a link to the fairs? It doesn’t make the core of it any less terrible but I’d like to see more information about it before sticking that in my brain, ya know?