Operation Wetback

A) was the code name for a CIA operation conducted on the border between Texas and Mexico.
B) was how leftist news organizations described the McCarran-Walter Act.
C) was a military operation that rounded up illegal aliens found in Mexican-American neighborhoods for deportation.
D) was opposed by President Truman.
E) deported very few illegal aliens.

Operation Wetback

A 1954 initiative by the U.S. government to remove illegal immigrants, primarily Mexicans, from the United States, resulting in the deportation of thousands.

CIA

The Central Intelligence Agency, a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world.

Deportation

The act of a government forcibly removing an individual or a group of people from its territory, typically for legal or immigration violations.