Susan Shelley: The U.S. government should be removing, not shielding, migrants with criminal records

Get ready for Operation Ruby Slippers. A lot of people are about to go home.

The last time the United States government conducted a mass deportation was 1954. It had a different name that’s not printable in a newspaper today.

If anyone had told me five years ago that a majority of the American people would ever support doing something like that again, I probably would have checked their forehead for fever and prescribed a two-week break from cable news.

But here we are. The Scripps News/Ipsos Poll conducted Sept.