Resigned GOPer: 'Operation Wetback' Wasn't 'Derogatory' [View all]
The Arizona Republican who said that women on welfare should be sterilized is not a fan of undocumented immigrants either.
Former Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce (R), who resigned as first vice chairman of the Arizona Republican Party on Sunday, discussed Operation Wetback and undocumented immigrants with a caller on his radio show in June.
The caller brought up Operation Wetback, a controversial plan carried out by the federal government in 1954 to deport undocumented immigrants back to Mexico. Border patrol officers also deported the children of immigrants who were born in the U.S.
The caller initially referred to the policy as "Operation W-Back," and eventually asked if he could say the word itself.
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