praising a program whose official name considers what is currently considered an offensively, operation wet back. in 1954 this massive roundup of undocumented workers came after years of growing tension between the u.s. and mexico about competition for workers, the effect on wages, and border security. my fellow citizens reporter: and while the eisenhower administration considered it a success, many modern historians do not. it was inhumane and abusive to mention mexicans that had come at our request to work. reporter: they claimed over 1 million deportations while later analysis suggested maybe only a quarter million, even has farm jobs in the southwest continued drawing tens of thousands of new immigrants.
it was inhumane, it was abusive to mexicans that had come into the united states, at our request to work, during world war ii. for starter, immigration enforcement claimed over a million deportations, while later analysis suggested maybe only a quarter million. even as farm jobs in the southwest continued drawing tens of thousands of new immigrants. humanitarian complaints were raised as some deportees were sent back to mexico aboard what a congressional investigation described as a slave ship. many of the mexicans that were rounded up had their heads shaved. many were beaten and abused. there s incidents in 1955 of mexicans that died in the desert because they were pushed out of the united states. reporter: indeed that summer, 88 people died of heat stroke in a single episode. no wonder the blowback to trump s ideas is strong. for the 11 million people, come on, folks, we all know you
reporter: and while the eisenhower administration considered the program a success due to a sharp spike in apprehensions of mexicans, many modern historians like douglas brinkly do not. it was inhumane. it was abusive to mexicans that came into the united states at our request to work during world war ii. reporter: for starters it claimed over 1 million deportations and later analysis suggested a quarter million as farm jobs in the southwest continue drawing tens of thousands of new immigrants. humanitarian complaints were raised as deportations were sent to mexico in a slave ship. many of the mexicans that were rounded up had their heads shaved, many were beaten and abused. there is incidents in 1955 of mexicans that died in the desert because they were pushed out of the united states. reporter: indeed, that summer
give bernie advice. he has the easiest strategic path tonight. he has something look at you setting up the false expectation. he s a good debater, hillary s a good debater. he has something that s working but everybody hasn t heard it yet. he takes that same message that s working, he s drawing tens of thousands of people. he needs to stay on course, repeat that. if i were advising him, i would say, there are millions of people who will love your message but haven t heard it yet. but don t get distracted by the pomp of the event. same thing that hillary has had to do. i think bernie, you know, has a little bit of the grumpy old grandpa problem in some ways. he s very didactic in the way he comes across, pushy about his ideas in a way. paul s right. those ideas are things that really appeal to democratic voters what he s go the to do is
clinton coming this week and saying that she would like to use, if president, executive action on guns because congress hasn t gotten anything through. would we see executive action from bernie sanders on this? the first thing, with secretary clinton you never know what she is going to say on any given day. there are new positions whether it be tpp. once she was for saying marriage was only between a man and woman. now it is a new position. right. but you said bernie sanders progressed on guns. martin o malley is trying to find traction in a primary where he has no traction. both secretary clinton and martin o malley are looking at this incredible surge on the part of bernie sanders throughout the country where he is drawing tens of thousands of people in rallies. in massachusetts, he drew more people than barack obama drew when barack obama first ran. he has gone from being