Operation Wetback - Undocumented immigrants and migrant workers rounded up 1954

1:02 Footage of undocumented migrant workers rounded up, processed at a Dept of Justice building and put on a bus. Taken to an undisclosed location but presumably deported.  1954 California, USA.

These Mexican immigrants had been caught in the snare of Operation Wetback, the biggest mass deportation of undocumented workers in United States history. As many as 1.3 million people may have been swept up in the Eisenhower-era campaign with a racist name, which was designed to root out undocumented Mexicans from American society.

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