deportation

Examples of deportation in the following topics:

• Population Transfer

  • The tide started to turn when the Charter of the Nuremberg Trials of German Nazi leaders declared that forced deportation of civilian populations was both a war crime and a crime against humanity.This opinion was progressively adopted and extended through the remainder of the century.
  • Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive. ...
  • The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.

• Immigration Restriction League

  • It was a law that would allow the U.S. to deport immigrants who had entered the country in violation of law.
  • Furthermore, it stated that the company that had transported such individuals would pay half the cost of their removal to the port of deportation.

• Red Scare

  • Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer, another target of the mail bombs, attempted to suppress radical organizations through exaggerated rhetoric, illegal search and seizures, unwarranted arrests and detentions, and the deportation of several hundred suspected radicals and anarchists.
  • Yet fewer than 600 of Palmer's raids were substantiated with evidence and thousands of resident aliens were illegally arrested and deported.
  • The anti-immigrant, anti-anarchist Sedition Act of 1918 was approved in Congress to protect wartime morale by deporting people with undesirable politics.
  • Passage of these laws provoked aggressive police investigations and unwarranted arrests and deportation for those suspected of communist or left-wing leanings.

• Hoover's Efforts at Recovery

  • The repatriation program, which continued through 1936, was a forced migration of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans over the southern border, with estimates ranging from 500,000 to 2 million deported.
  • The American Federation of Labor and the National Club of America for Americans both stated that deportation of Mexicans would free jobs for U.S. citizens.
  • Hoover endorsed a plan to deport “foreigners” under the third U.S.
  • Doak, whose measures to expel Mexican immigrants included arresting participants in labor protests and farm strikes, charge them with illegal activities or being illegal immigrants, and deporting them.
  • This focus on labor garnered public support for further actions by immigration agents including mass arrests and arbitrary deportations.

• The Cuban War of Independence

  • Following his second deportation to Spain in 1878, revolutionary José Martí moved to the United States in 1881.
  • The uprisings in the central part of the island were poorly coordinated and failed; the leaders were captured, some were deported and others were executed.

• Yalta's Legacy

  • They had been deported from Kresy to the eastern regions of Russia, or sent to Gulags when the USSR occupied this region of Poland in 1939.
  • After receiving considerable criticism in London following Yalta regarding the atrocities committed in Poland by Soviet troops, Churchill wrote Roosevelt a desperate letter referencing the wholesale deportations and liquidations of opposition Poles by the Soviets.

• Chinese Exclusion and Chinese Rights

  • The Act excluded Chinese "skilled and unskilled laborers employed in mining" from entering the country for ten years under penalty of imprisonment and deportation.
  • Without a certificate, he or she faced deportation. "

• The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Alien Act authorized the president to deport any resident alien considered "dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States."
  • The Alien Enemies Act authorized the president to apprehend and deport resident aliens if their home countries were at war with the United States.

• The XYZ Affair

  • The United States had offered France many of the same provisions found in the Jay Treaty with Britain, but France reacted by deporting Marshall and Pinckney back to the United States and refusing any proposal that would involve these two delegates, both key Federalists.

• Expansion and the Mexican-American War

  • In the 1830s, the federal government forcibly deported the southeastern tribes to the Indian territory (now Oklahoma) via the "Trail of Tears. "