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The U.S. Border Patrol packed Mexican immigrants into trucks when transporting them to the border for deportation. This photo was taken June 9, 1954. U.S. Border Patrol Museum

‘Operation Wetback’: The Valley has been down this road before

How ironic that a term still deemed offensive today in the Rio Grande Valley — “Wetback” — was considered normal in the summer of 1954 when then-President Dwight Eisenhower launched “Operation Wetback,” which used military style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants from along the U.S./Mexico border, including the Rio Grande Valley.

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