One Mexican-American recalls his family fleeing the U.S. in the mass deportation of the 1950s--he was among hundreds of thousands uprooted--and reflects on Trump’s pledge to deport people by the millions.
P. Morgan
4d
It needs to happen again. A nation has a right to determine who can cross its borders.
Eric Levy
3d
Nice post! Mass deportations of 10-15 million people will require dehumanizing enough people to allow setting up concentration camps and causing hundreds of thousands of deaths of legal and illegal immigrants, killing or deporting parents and leaving hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizen children on the streets, etc. And what will we do if we have rounded up those millions of people, put them in camps, and cannot find a place to send them? That issue has arisen in the past.
The people coming into our country now are completely different from the people coming in in the 1950’s and many with a whole different motive and agenda.
Bill Wright
4d
Well, if you came here illegally. Tough. We have laws. In fact, if you cross the border illegally in some countries, they will shoot you. Come here legally. And don't expect a handout. My grandfather came here legally from Spain, thru Ellis Island. Legally. He had a successful life.
I don't support the invasion at the border. 🤔 My grandfather was all Hispanic and born in the USA. He enlisted in WWII at age 15. His family came here not to take but rather to give. He only had one child and was hit by a German grenade early in WWII. He reenlisted, serving in Korea and Vietnam. People who come here to contribute and risk their lives in the armed forces differ from criminal migrants who neither bring wealth nor military service. Our colonial ancestors brought wealth and created a wealthy nation. Our families have risked everything in every war with American involvement since the 1600s. It's unequal when we contribute wealth and others only bring crime. Not all people of Mexican heritage are criminal migrants: my grandfather, SSgt. Manuel D. Tarin's mother's family came to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the early 1600s. My Castillo ancestors have been here longer than my British, French, Swiss, and Dutch ancestors, who came here in the 1600s and 1700s. Most settled in the Virginia Colony, with a few in New England. Manuel's father immigrated from a town named for his family's ranch, Rancho el Tarín, in Chihuahua, Mexico. Manuel earned his father's right to become a citizen by dedicating his life to the U.S. Army.