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He's written in favour of deporting non-white Londoners, including many of my friends and family - despite them having been born and brought up in the UK and being full UK citiz…
by roryirvine · Sep 1, 2026
Good thing the courts are already upholding the constitutionality of Flock in US v Jackson and Schmidt v. City of Norfolk. If it reaches the SC, I think it'd be easy to see a li…
by alex43578 · Aug 30, 2026
>What a weird analogy. What analogy? It's the same exact thing, scaled up from family to nation-state. These things aren't like each other, they are the same thing just smaller&…
by NoMoreNicksLeft · Aug 29, 2026
No. I believe, for example, that singling out legal immigrants from Haiti, revoking their legal status, and deporting them back to Haiti, where the current state department's we…
by the_gastropod · Aug 28, 2026
> Those cities had very little problem when Obama was deporting millions. Incorrect. They were "sanctuary" cities during Obama, as well. > the correct thing is to give them a su…
by nomel · Aug 27, 2026
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Deportation is the expulsion of a person or group of people by a state from its sovereign territory. The actual definition changes depending on the place and context, and it also changes over time. A person who has been deported or is under sentence of deportation is called a deportee. Read more on Wikipedia