"operation" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- - called Operation Wetback.
- Overall, there were 1,078,168 apprehensions made in the first year of Operation Wetback, with 170,000 being captured from May to July 1954.
- In terms of apprehensions, Operation Wetback was immediately successful.
- Operation Wetback uses the name "Wetback" which was a derogatory term applied to Mexicans laborers, both legal and illegal.
- In 1954, the executive branch of the U.S. government implemented Operation Wetback, a program created in response to public hysteria about immigration and immigrants.
- Operation Wetback led to the deportation of nearly 1.3 million Mexicans from the United States.
- On June 17, 1954, Eisenhower launched Operation Wetback in response to increasing illegal immigration to the United States.
- In 1954, Operation Wetback forced the return of thousands of illegal immigrants to Mexico.
- It is estimated that, in 1954, before Operation Wetback got under way, more than a million workers had crossed the Rio Grande illegally.
- Fanning out from the lower Rio Grande valley, Operation Wetback moved northward.
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