... What was most alarming about Operation Wetback was the initial deception by the INS. One year before the implementation of Operation Wetback, the INS had launched a "friendly- public-relations effort in the Spanish-speaking communities. Immigration officials contacted community organizations such as CSO, ANMA, and LULAC, among others, and tried to present themselves as having a new policy toward undocumented Mexicans that ... , but are a threat, and therefore should be eradicated from the country, even if it was necessary to stretch the law to do so, for they often hold well-regarded rank...

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... Era The post- Civil War time period, or Reconstruction as it is commonly known, was the beginning of a new era in Southern history. The Radical Republican Congress placed the South under military rule; non-Southerners known as scallywags and carpetbaggers gained access to state house positions. In 1868, the thirteenth amendment was passed freeing all bondsmen from enslavement, followed by the 14th amendment ... to the further destruction done to the South by Reconstruction. The Klan formed as a fraternal order similar in structure and hierarchy to Masonic groups. The KKK was a quasi-mil...

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