Eisenhower Removed a Million People from Mexican Border.

In The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan explains that President Dwight Eisenhower understood that to secure the homeland, the border must be secure. He sent a general to the border to remove illegal immigrants and succeeded. Pat writes (abridged):

The Immigration Act of 1924 restricted legal immigration into the United States and imposed ethnic quotas.

That was American, not Nazi, law, and was enforced by Presidents Coolidge, Hoover, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy.

Eisenhower, who led the Allies to victory over Germany, sent General Joseph Swing to the U.S. border to remove a million people who had entered Texas illegally from Mexico, which the general proceeded to do.

Ike had crushed fascism and understood that securing the homeland against illegal mass migration is fascism only in the minds of those who have forgotten, if ever they knew, what a country is.

From his words and actions, Trump clearly senses that this may be the existential issue of his presidency: can he secure the border against what seems to be an unstoppable invasion from the global south?

Nor is this only an American issue. In the capitals of Europe—Budapest, Berlin, Paris, Rome, London, Madrid—the gnawing fear is not of Vladimir Putin leading a mighty Russian army back to the Elbe to recreate Stalin’s empire, but of the African and Muslim hundreds of millions looking north to the pleasant lands of the former mother countries.

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