He showed his toughness and his ability to get a job done when he took by the horns an appalling situation along the Mexican border where the socalled wetback invasion had assumed unbelievable proportions. The Commissioner. acting swiftly but carefully. and without additional cost to the taxpayers. reversed this avalanche and not only stopped a tide that was daily in the thousands. but made it possible for Mexicans here illegally to return to Mexico of their own accord and without penalty. In the summer of 1954 about 65.000 illegal aliens returned to Mexico of their own accord. This was a situation which nobody liked and which demanded correction and control. The Mexican and the .U.S.
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Describing the situation as an 'invasion' and 'avalanche' implies a loss of control and a threat.