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Why doesn’t Trump just cut the crap, rip off the red hat, and call it what they really call it behind closed MAGA doors?

Operation Wetback was a campaign by the U.S. government, primarily in 1954, to deport undocumented Mexican immigrants, particularly in the Southwest operation utilizing military/Gestapo-style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants - some of them American citizens - from the United States.

Yeah, that one. The phrase so racist, so dehumanizing, so soaked in Jim Crow-era bile that it makes your spine itch just hearing it. And yet - it’s the unofficial title of what’s being whispered, plotted, and now outright implemented in the darkest corners of MAGA Land.

Don’t believe me? Check the headlines.

LA Public Schools to Shield Graduation Ceremonies from ICE Raids.”
 You read that right. In the Year of Our Lord 2025, Los Angeles - one of the most diverse cities in the country - has to build a perimeter of human decency just to protect immigrant families from being snatched off school grounds while their kids walk the stage. Imagine needing a tactical defense line to graduate high school in the so-called land of the free. That’s not policy. That’s a domestic counterterrorism maneuver by your own damn government.

Who does this? Who thinks this stuff is not only acceptable but patriotic? Who likes this stuff? Who supports it? Who defends it?

Well, here’s your answer, and brace yourself - it’s not a mystery. It’s not subtle. It’s not even hidden anymore. There are two things MAGA is bankrupt of: a conscience and shame, they can’t be shamed ….that’s a trifling combination, no?

It’s the cult of Make America Great/White Again.

The same folks who think “compassion” is code for weakness. The same crowd who mourned when statues of Confederate traitors came down but cheer when brown babies get put in cages. They minimize it, rationalize it, meme it, and then spit-polish it into “border security.” And if you ask them? It’s not racism - it’s just “law and order,” baby.

Law and order. Right. The same phrase Bull Connor used before turning fire hoses on Black children. The same excuse ICE uses before they separate families at the border and throw toddlers in cages with mylar blankets. The same dog whistle-turned-foghorn that Trump has blasted from every podium he’s ever slithered behind.

And now, we’ve witnessed these ghouls construct graduation perimeters.

Let that marinate: Young people are throwing their caps into the air while ICE agents lurk in the shadows like damn wedding crashers from hell. And we’re supposed to pretend this is about protecting our borders? Please.

This is state-sponsored trauma. This is fascism cosplaying as homeland security. This is American cruelty on full display - streaming live, in HD, and proudly rebranded with a red, white, and blue bow.

Now I ask - am I lying?

Tell me I’m wrong. I dare you. I double-dog dare you. Because history says otherwise.

Let’s do a little roll call:

 Japanese Internment Camps.

 The Chinese Exclusion Act.

 Operation Wetback (yes, that was its actual name - Google it, I’ll wait).

 The Trail of Tears.

 The Fugitive Slave Act.

 Plantations - Cotton/tobacco,sugar you name the cash crop an industrial empire built with the enslaved blood, sweat, tears and years of people’s lives.

 Reservations for Indigenous people

Cruelty isn’t an accident here. It’s not a glitch in the system. It is the system.

This is America’s operating system - colonial version 1.0, with racist updates delivered every election cycle.

But let’s not kid ourselves - it’s not just a few fringe hillbillies clutching shotguns and Confederate flags. No. The architects of this new era of terror are mainstream, buttoned-up, Bible-waving, regulation-cutting, golf-club Republicans. And before you even blink, yes, I mean White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, thank you very much.

They used to call themselves “Conservative.” Then “TEA Party.” Now it’s just “MAGA,” but it all spells the same four-letter word: FEAR. Fear of change. Fear of melanin. Fear of not being in control of every damn thing.

And that fear? It’s weaponized now. It’s the fuel for policies that punish the poor, criminalize the desperate, and terrorize the vulnerable.

Don’t get it twisted - this isn’t about national security. This is all about national purity. It’s about building a country where white grievance is government policy. And Trump, bless his dead-eyed soul, is just the mascot. He’s the bloated, gold-plated blow horn screaming what generations of White America have whispered for centuries.

And if we’re being honest - when folks show you who they are, best believe them.

This isn’t some shocking new development. This is an encore. A rerun. A sequel to the American horror story that never really ended.

We act surprised, like ICE just started doing this last week. But no - this is what America does. It’s what it’s always done. The only thing new is the way they’re marketing it now. They’ve updated the packaging. Added some QR codes. Tossed in a few evangelical talking points and Fox News chyron slogans. But the ingredients are the same. Racism, sexism, classim, basic xenophobia and white supremacy

And while we’re over here clapping at graduations and passing out diplomas, the stormtroopers in khakis and Ray-Bans are circling the parking lot, waiting for a family to exhale just long enough for them to strike.

So again, I ask: Who likes this … you know what?

Your neighbor. Your congressman. Your pastor. The guy two cubicles down who quotes Reagan like scripture but locks his doors when brown kids ride past on bikes.

They love it. They love every inch of it. Because it makes them feel powerful. It makes them feel safe. It reminds them that, even as the demographics shift and the truth grows louder - they can still win by breaking people.

So no, Trump doesn’t need to be subtle. He doesn’t need to dog whistle anymore. He’s got a bullhorn. And MAGA isn’t hiding this agenda - they’re selling it in 4K, with stadium rallies and PowerPoints.

Call it what it is: Operation Wetback 2.0: The Graduation Blitz.

Next, the Independence Day Raids: Yes. Unless we name it, shame it, and torch it under the blinding light of truth, we’ll keep living in a country where your child’s biggest graduation fear isn’t tripping on stage - it’s whether they’ll still have a parent to hug afterward.

Absolutely - I am pouring gasoline on that fire, I want to torch the hypocrisy in broad daylight.

Welcome to the United States of White People. Now do you believe me?





BlackCommentator.com Columnist, Desi

Cortez, who also writes for

BlackAthlete.com & NegusWhoRead.com,

was hatched in the heart of Dixie, circa

1961, at the dawning of the age of

Aquarius, the by-product of four dynamic

individuals, Raised in South-Central LA,

the 213. At age 14 transplanted to the

base of the Rockies, Denver. Still a Mile-

Hi. Sat at the foot of scholars for many,

many moons, emerging with a desire and

direction… if not a sheep-skin.

Meandered thru life; gone a-lot places,

done a-lot of things, raised a man-cub

into an officer n' gentleman, a "man's

man." Produced a beautiful baby-girl

with my lover/woman/soul-mate… aired

my "little" mind on the airwaves and

wrote some stuff along the way.

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Get The Hell Out!. Contact Mr. Cortez

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