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- Title
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE WETBACK PROBLEM.
- Authors
HADLEY, ELEANOR M.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the illegal immigration of Mexicans into the U.S. during the period, 1944-1954. It discusses the poverty as the main reason for the entrance of Mexicans, called wetbacks, who came to the U.S. to earn money by doing jobs such as chopping and picking cotton and harvesting sugar beets. It mentions the efforts of late Senator Pat McCarran to defend the illegal traffic from Mexico, arguing that their legal entry for employment involved too much red tape, the passage of the 1953 Refugee Relief Act, and the authorization of the entry of wetbacks who entered only for temporary employment. It also discusses the social and economic consequences of the illegal immigration, and the decision of the Attorney General to enforce the law in the California border in 1953.
- Subjects
MEXICO; UNITED States; EMIGRATION &; immigration; UNDOCUMENTED immigrants; IMMIGRANTS; MCCARRAN, Pat, 1876-1954; POVERTY; RED tape; IMMIGRATION law; UNITED States. Dept. of Justice
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1956, Vol 21, Issue 2, p334
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1190507