Deportation Quotes

• The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.

  Tom Tancredo

  Punishment, Want, Use

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  War, Writing, Two

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• Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.

  Alexander Dubcek

  Summer, Spring, Poland

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• For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver's license, buy an airplane ticket and stop worrying about sudden deportation. But for the country as a whole, it's crucial that everybody have a citizen's stake in the nation's welfare.

  Gail Collins

  Country, Airplane, Worry

  "Is This a Government Which I See Before Me?". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 5, 2013.

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• Our view of the law is that it - if somebody is here without sufficient documentation, that is not reason for deportation.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Views, Law, Documentation

  "Pelosi to Telemundo: We Need to See “Action from the President” on Deportation Record". Interview with Telemundo, www.latinorebels.com. December 16, 2013.

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• Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation. That is what it means to have laws and to have a country. Otherwise we don't have a country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Mean, Law

  "Donald Trump promises 'no amnesty' in aggressive immigration speech - as it happened" by Trump vows to deport millions: 'There will be no amnesty' Scott Bixby, Tom McCarthy, Claire Phipps, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2016.

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• The destination of the deportation is annihilation.

  Talaat Pasha

  Destination, Annihilation

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• As long as being a stranger and surrounded by strangers was seen as a temporary irritant, a smallest departure from the binding rules of conduct by a member of a minority, was taken for a major crime justifying deportation.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Taken, Long, Minorities

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• Let us not mince words about what this would be: a deportation force designed to break up families and deport millions of people.

  Jerry Brown

  People, Would Be, Break

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Because of Obama ... dreamers who are American in every way except on paper, no longer live under the shadow of deportation.

  Nydia Velazquez

  Dreamer, Shadow, Paper

  Nydia Velazquez's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.

  George Orwell

  War, Practice, Long

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• These folks are telling Donald Trump that if he tries to move out on his plan to have a deportation squad, to harm Americans, and if he does - and if he has - he tries to do that, we're going to be there to stand and say no. We don't - we oppose his misogyny. We oppose his picking on people of different ethnic and religious groups.

  Keith Ellison

  Religious, Moving, Squad

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• What I'm talking about is the order of deportation, the sequence of deportation. It is almost impossible to move 11 million illegal immigrants overnight. You do it in steps.

  Michele Bachmann

  Moving, Order, Talking

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• It's different when you talk about immigration in the abstract... It's very different when you sit in front of a family, and [undocumented] children who grew up in this country, and who go to the same school you once went to... They thought if we only enforce the law, people will self-deport... It's not going to happen. The solution is not the status quo, or deportation when you're talking about breaking up families.

  Mike Coffman

  Country, Children, School

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• I see a huge, huge divide between the people who are facing the most barriers and violence and the kinds of stories being told in mainstream American politics. The issues that I think most about - how many people's lives are being affected by prisons and policing, how many people's lives are being affected by immigration enforcement and deportation - those stories aren't being touched, let alone told, in mainstream politics.

  Grace Dunham

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• Deportation is a decision taken by the home secretary under statute, The new grounds will include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person's beliefs, or justifying or validating such violence.

  Tony Blair

  Taken, Home, Hatred

  Press Conference, webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. August 5, 2005.

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• When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact… I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915.

  Henry Morgenthau, Sr.

  Past, Race, Order

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• It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Ghetto, People, Car

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

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• President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Country, Offering, President

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• Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is not for comfort and security but for suffering and humiliation.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Blow, Israel, Faithful

  Lesslie Newbigin (1995). “The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission”, p.73, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.

  Aaron Klein

  Order, Administration, Illegal

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• All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million Lithuanians, the murder of hundreds of thousands of Poles, the liquidation of the Crimean Tatars remain in our memory, but no photographic documentation exists; sooner or later they will therefore be proclaimed as fabrications.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Shadow, Empires

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• That has been the same [my opinion on deportation], correct. But, again, you have to start with baby steps.

  Donald Trump

  Baby, Steps, Opinion

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Undocumented people have been targeted for years now. Even under the Obama administration, there was a really large number of deportations of undocumented people. Trump has just taken that policy and ratcheted it up several notches. He's made it much more intense. We've had situations where people who would have been covered by the Obama administration, people who had been promised a path toward legal residency, had that taken away. I did not imagine that. I could never have imagined that happening.

  Hector Tobar

  Taken, Numbers, Years

  Source: www.slate.com

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• My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims. For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation and cold.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Cold, Mass, Aspect

  Der Spiegel Interview, No. 46, 1996.

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