Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West

Gordon MorrisBakken; Alexandra Kindell

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Operation Wetback refers to the U.S. government's effort to counter the dramatic increase in illegal immigration throughout the southwestern states during [Page 511]the 1940s. This program under the control of Joseph Swing, commissioner of the Immigration and ...

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