Trump Vows to Deport All Undocumented Immigrants, Resurrecting a 1950s Strategy, But It Didn’t Work Then and is Less Likely to Do So Now

Mexican agricultural workers are seen in California in 1943. Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information photograph collection (Library of Congress)

While campaigning in Iowa last September, former President Donald Trump made a promise to voters if he were elected again: “Following the Eisenhower model, we will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” he said. Trump, who made a similar pledge during his first presidential campaign, has...