Deportation & Families
The process of forcing a noncitizen to leave the country where they are living.
What is deportation?
This common belief about immigrants and employment is often used to justify anti-immigrant attitudes and policies.
What is the belief that immigrants are stealing jobs from American workers?
These people flee their home countries and seek protection because they fear persecution or other qualifying harm.
Who are refugees?
This is unpaid work that people choose to do to support a cause or help others.
What is volunteering?
Mass deportation, like mass incarceration, disproportionately targets these two groups of men.
Who are Black and Latino men?
According to labor scholar Ruth Milkman, this is intertwined with the entire history of labor in the United States.
What is the history of immigration?
Unlike refugees who have been recognized as meeting the applicable criteria for protection, these people have requested protection and are awaiting a decision on their claim.
Who are asylum seekers?
Which poet and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador used poetry and a 1,000-kilometer walk to raise awareness about displacement and peace in Sudan?
Who is Emi Mahmoud?
This organization, founded in 2002, supports families facing and fighting deportation.
What is Families for Freedom (FFF)?
In 2025, people born outside the United States made up this percentage of the U.S. civilian labor force.
What is 19.1%?
Worldwide, fewer than this percentage of refugees have access to resettlement.
What is less than 1%?
This immigrant youth-led organization advances immigrant rights through technology, support for LGBTQ+ immigrant youth, education access, and efforts to stop deportations.
What is United We Dream?