EU strikes migration deal for more deportations and detention centers abroad
France 24 →The European Union has moved forward with a vast overhaul of its migration policy, aiming to ramp up deportations and ink controversial deals to build detention centers abroad. Rights groups have criticized it, comparing the new regulations to the Trump administration's aggressive immigration policies.
More Deportations
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaya The federal government of Malaya is deporting 800 aliens and 81 British subjects under regulations prevailing during the state of emergency. This makes total deportation of 2,799 aliens and 80 British subjects since the first of this year.
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Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
The Immigration and Nationality Act eliminated numerous due-process safeguards shielding immigrants from deportation abuses. The act was debated and passed in the context of Cold War-era fears and suspicions of infiltrating Soviet and communist spies and sympathizers within American institutions.
Wikipedia →Shaughnessy v. United States ex rel. Mezei
Shaughnessy v. United States ex rel. Mezei, 345 U.S. 206 (1953), was a United States Supreme Court case that established the federal government's power to detain immigrants pending departure abroad, upheld the Attorney General's continued detention of an immigrant without a hearing, and held such immigrants could not be temporarily admitted to the United States in lieu of detention. It is the Supreme Court's 'strongest statement' of the plenary power doctrine in United States immigration and nationality case law and was, at the time in 1953, said to 'render the government's power to exclude aliens virtually unlimited.'
Wikipedia →Operation Wetback
Operation Wetback was an immigration law enforcement initiative by the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The short-lived operation used military-style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants from the United States. Although aimed at undocumented Mexican immigrants, some American citizens and legal Mexican immigrants were also deported.
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