Whitewashes Eisenhower’s mass deportations to justify his own

During the Nov. 10, 2015 Fox Business debate in Milwaukee, Trump defended his plan to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants by praising President Dwight Eisenhower’s 1950s roundup of Mexican migrants and claiming Eisenhower “moved 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country,” glossing over the abuses of “Operation Wetback” and exaggerating its effectiveness to make his own mass-deportation scheme sound reasonable.

"moved 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country,"