During his Monday night livestream, Trump-loving Christian nationalist pseudo-historian Rick Green announced his intention to get Operation Wetback, a military-style deportation campaign carried out by the Eisenhower administration in the 1950s, taught positively in Texas schools.
During the stream, Green voiced his support for Trump's vow to "permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries" and "remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country." Green pointed to Eisenhower's deportation campaign as evidence that it can be done.
"I think that it will be incredibly popular for President Trump to do what he said he was going to do," Green said. "They're going to start deporting people, even the ones that came here legally."
"I don't care if you came here legally," Green continued. "If we decide you're not good for America, absolutely the American government has the right to end your stay and deport you. And that's what needs to happen with any group that is not good for America, that does not line up with American values. And yes, I'm referring to a lot of the Muslim community, anyone that says they're for Sharia law, anyone that flies another nation's flag and says anything anti-American should be removed. Period. End of story. It shouldn't take that long."
Green declared that he wants to see at least 20 to 30 million immigrants rounded up and deported, noting that in order "to do those numbers, it's going to require significant cooperation with local law enforcement."
"Now, Eisenhower did this, so this is not the first time this would happen," Green proclaimed. "President Eisenhower did this. And I think when he did it ... it was a million or two million that they deported. But it was all done in conjunction with local law enforcement. ... All of that can be done."
Later in the stream, Green read comments left by viewers, one of whom informed Green that Eisenhower's program was called Operation Wetback.
"Was it really called that?" Green laughed. "I don't know off the top of my head. If it was really called Operation Wetback, I'm going to laugh so text me back and let me know if that's really what it was called."
When that same viewer assured Green that that was indeed the name of the operation, Green asked for more information, revealing that he is working with committees that are rewriting the state of Texas' social studies curriculum, and he wants to make sure this included.
"I'm helping with some of these committees and different things for the new social studies standards for Texas, so I'm going to work on getting that back in there," Green stated. "Text me some data on it if you've got it. That would be great. Help me build that in. And we're creating a Texas history curriculum right now; we could even include it in that because I'm sure a lot of that took place in Texas."
