In summer 1954, the Eisenhower administration launched a military-style effort to remove Mexican immigrants who were in the country illegally. Donald Trump has lauded the raids since he first ran for president. People affected by the raids and historians argue Trump is using fragments of history for political reasons while discounting his own administration’s failures. Among those affected was Noelia Sanchez, who was born in Missouri to Mexican parents working as seasonal farmworkers. When she was 1, Noelia and her mother, Aurora, were rounded up with dozens of other immigrants in a Texas town near the border. The family returned to the U.S. a year later. Noelia's son is now an immigration attorney in Chicago.
