#TIL Mexicans crossed into the United States at rates of about a million per year in the 1950s since they weren't subject to general immigration restrictions until 1965.
The U.S. government started “Operation Wetback" (a name that wouldn't fly today) in 1954 and claimed to have deported one million Mexicans.
"Among those deported, included many U.S. citizens of Mexican descent."
https://immigrationhistory.org/item/operation-wetback/
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