Torres Speaks Out About Proposed Deportation Policy

In response to comments by presidential candidate Donald Trump, Esteban Torres, a former U.S. Congressman for California’s 34th District (Pico Rivera), spoke to the Los Angeles Times about Operation Wetback, a program that forced or compelled thousands of immigrants to leave the United States in the 1950s, calling it a misguided model for future deportation policy. UCLA history professor and former CSRC associate director Kelly Lytle Hernandez was also quoted in the story. The CSRC has the Esteban Torres Papers, which are being processed now as part of project supported by an NEH grant.

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