Unit 3: Explain the U.S. government's rationale behind the implementation and enforcement of Operation Wetback of 1954

What were the two primary objectives of "Operation Wetback"?

(1): to stop the flow of illegal and undocumented Mexican workers in the United States. (2): discourage employers from recruiting illegal and undocumented Mexican workers

Where did the Operation Wetback enforced?

Across the United States

Who drafted the Operation Wetback?

General Herbert Brownell Jr. and examined by President Dwight D. Eisenhower

What did Operation Wetback result in?

Mass deportation of Mexican Nationals

When was the Operation Wetback enforced?

Summer of 1954

What was the role of the Bracero Program?

The Bracero Program was first implemented in 1942, during World War 2. The U.S government and the Mexican Government worked together to enacted the program, which allowed "short-term contract laborers from Mexico, known as braceros, to work legally in the United States."

Who did this affect?

The Mexican People

What was the Operation Wetback?

U.S law enforcement campaign during summer of 1954

What event caused Mexicans to immigrate to the United States?

World War 2

Deportation www.dictionary.com/browse/deportation

the lawful expulsion of an undesired alien or other person from a state.

"Wetback"

the offensive term for the multitude of Mexican immigrants who transversed the Rio grade to illegally cross the border between Mexico and the United States.