# Operation Wetback **Status: stub.** A 1954 mass-deportation campaign run by the Immigration and Naturalization Service under the [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] administration, targeting Mexican nationals. Official figures claimed over one million removals, though historians regard that number as inflated; the operation also swept up U.S. citizens and relied on harsh, often dangerous removal methods. Its slur-derived name notwithstanding, later restrictionists — including Trump — have repeatedly invoked it as a model for mass deportation, which is why it recurs in contemporary enforcement rhetoric. See also: [[US Immigration Timeline]].