Trump’s Immigrant Removals Aren’t Technically Deportations. So What Are They?
Reporters and advocacy groups found it hard to catalogue the Trump administration’s chaotic and secretive mass deportation program when it launched this winter, beginning with what word best describes the unprecedented tactics.
Deportation is the most commonly understood term, but it refers to a codified judicial process for expelling an alien back to their home country for violating immigration law—a process that the Trump administration’s program barely resembled. In the multiple cases of foreign students who were snatched off the street and had their visas revoked, they were given no due process and provided no evidence of what, if any, laws they had violated.
The Trump administration also summarily expelled several hundred alleged Venezuelan gang members and sent them not to their home country but to a nightmarish Salvadoran megaprison. The only w
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