Deportation Archives - Public Seminar

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Mass Deportation

Episode 5

May 13, 2025 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina M Rodríguez

In this episode, the hosts evaluate the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations—their feasibility, legality, and likely consequences—with guest Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council.

Migration

Guantanamo, Again

No one is above the law, and no president should become a king

April 2, 2025 • by Joseph Margulies

Tracking the damage President Trump has done in his first two months in office sometimes seems like counting the homes flattened in a hurricane. Every house matters to someone—but it’s the cumulative devastation that most matters to society as a whole. Yet as long as people are still picking through ...

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The Stansted 15 and the Criminalization of Migrant Solidarity

Solidarity is framed as a crime and anti-terror legislation is mobilized to suppress dissent

April 2, 2019 • by May Robson

In December 2018, laws designed to deal with terrorism – not peaceful protest – were used to convict the Stansted 15. In March 2017, the group of activists had locked themselves around an aircraft to prevent a charter flight due to deport 60 people from taking off. The case is well-documented, with ...

The Stansted 15 and the Criminalization of Migrant Solidarity

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After the ‘American Dream’?

How Mexico Responds to U.S. Deportations

February 6, 2019 • by Guadalupe Chavez

“Fixing” the “illegal” immigration “problem” has been at the forefront of Donald Trump’s rhetoric from the first weeks he took office until today. Despite Trump’s anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric, undocumented persons across the U.S. are taking to the streets in protest, demanding that politicians uphold their rights, and seeking sanctuary ...

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Making a Hostile Environment

Why the deportation of sex offenders matters

June 13, 2018 • by May Robson

The case of the “Asian grooming gang” from the Rochdale area of Greater Manchester is notorious. Over a two-year period, a group of nine men plied young girls with food, alcohol and drugs in order to sexually exploit them. The men were sentenced in May 2012, following a high-profile trial. ...

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In Defense of Sanctuary

The negation of a movement

April 17, 2017 • by Abou Farman

As the lights went out on the administration’s anti-healthcare initiative, Jeff Sessions, like the ringmaster of a three-ring circus, made a sudden appearance out from the darkness to train the spotlight once more onto sanctuary cities and bark about their criminal inhabitants, otherwise known as immigrants. Sanctuary policies, he claimed, ...

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Aeroplanes and Deportation

April 21, 2016 • by Douglas de Toledo Piza

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School presents a lecture by Wiliam Walters entitled “Aeroplanes and Deportation.” There can be no expulsion without the trains, planes, buses and ships that states use to transport deportees across borders and territories. There can be no deportation without an assortment of guards, pilots, doctors, ...