| | | President Lincoln and Congress initiated such a program, funded it, and began the repatriation process. It was known as the Liberian Project, and many Blacks were repatriated to Liberia, Africa. For some reason, funding eventually dried up for the project, and it stopped.
Likewise, President Eisenhower and Congress initiated and funded Operation Wetback, to find and deport all illegal aliens in the United States to Mexico and Central America. Again, after initial success, the government ultimately failed to complete the task.
Both failures to follow through were very ill-advised and akin to cutting the jugular vein of the United States of America. Each day, the deleterious and disastrous effects of those failures grows worse and worse and compounds over time. |
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