Comment on Why is deportation done instead of imprisonment or making people become documented? In other words, why does deportation exist?

ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Racism.

Deportation has always been about keeping the US white. The first immigration law in the US was called the Chinese Exclusion Act and was passed to keep Western states white dominated.

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