Eisenhower’s 1955 Mass Deportation Uprooted Over a Million Mexican Immigrants

The short-lived operation used military-style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants—some of them American citizens—from the United States.

What the Mass Deportation of Immigrants Might Look Like

by Louis Hyman and Natasha Iskander

Operation Wetback didn’t merely enforce immigration law—it enforced the idea that American citizens are white.

The Long History of Botched Mass Deportations

by Candida Moss

Donald Trump is far from the first to use forced migration as a political cudgel, but he may want to learn about how it has often backfired.