'Operation Wet Back Again'

Border patrol was only given four weeks to prepare for what would become the largest operation in their history. In its first day, california and arizona agents apprehended nearly 11 thousand migrants. The sheer number of deportees overwhelmed the border patrol's capacity to hold or carry them. People were left in primitive, exposed concentration camps. For days. 25 % of all deportees were transported by boats,. many of which were so cramped and filthy that their occupants later compared them to slave ships or penal hell ships. A lot of the men who were in turn there, men and women, got sick and sometimes died of sunstroke because there was no care given to their health - itin get