- 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.