The U.S. 1953-54 recession almost double the unemployment rate and many American were worried that Mexicans were taking all the jobs and so became imminent that they were a threat to the U.S. labor. These brought up Operation Wetback in 1954 and in June 1954 the U.S. Attorney General, Herbert Brownell, Jr., ordered a massive deportation drive (Meier and Ribera, 189). More than a million undocumented workers were rounded up and sent back to Mexico regardless if they had a family or not. Many were treated unfairly and cruelly, especially since most of the undocumented worker lived in the U.S. for a long time. Many other undocumented workers voluntarily left back to Mexico, but its drawbacks were that the program only delayed illegal border crossing
