Good catch. Operation Wetback is a real precedent, and it belongs in this history. Appreciate the clarity on “I voted for this”; my point isn’t that enforcement is illegitimate, it’s that when it scales and starts targeting categories, safeguards matter. I left Wetback out of the top 3 because I was ranking by breadth/duration/institutionalization, but it’s definitely in the next tier of “mass removal” precedents worth including.
Good catch. Operation Wetback is a real precedent, and it belongs in this history. Appreciate the clarity on “I voted for this”; my point isn’t that enforcement is illegitimate, it’s that when it scales and starts targeting categories, safeguards matter. I left Wetback out of the top 3 because I was ranking by breadth/duration/institutionalization, but it’s definitely in the next tier of “mass removal” precedents worth including.