Deportation
Expulsion is another word for deportation
T/F
True
First immigration policy to limit immigration based on race
Chinese Exclusion Act
This campaign was run by leaders of the United Farm Workers would form a “wet line” to prevent immigrants from crossing into the United States. Farm owners were using migrants as scab labor.
In 1974 and 1975, Cesar Chavez and the UFW launched their now infamous “Illegals Campaign,” which called on the INS to enforce the border and “remove the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens now working in the fields.”
What was a challenge for the author when it came to researching voluntary departures?
There were no official records
The deportation mechanism relies on official government procedures and force removal of immigrants
Formal Deportation
Mexicans were the first ethnicity targeted by immigration law in the U.S.
T/F
False
The author refers to the 13 million deportations carried out by the INS between as
The era of mass expulsion
Name at least two research methods used by the author of The Deportation Machine, Adam Goodman
archival research, government documents, oral history interviews, etc.
More than 90 percent of all deportations in the U.S. have been through the voluntary departure mechanism
T/F
True
Labor initiative that brought 4.5 million migrant workers to the U.S. between 1942 and 1964
The Bracero Program
By 1910 what was the profile (ethnicity) of the typical deportee?
This term describes immigrants pressured to leave without formal removal proceedings
Voluntary Departure
The immigration act of 1917 made which act a deportable offense?
Prostitution (27)
Why did the INS come to rely so heavily on voluntary deportation in the mid-twentieth century?
Voluntary departures continued to be, first and foremost, a cost-saving measure, as an internal 1968 agency document made clear: “In order to reduce costs, policy and procedural changes were made to utilize informal deportations in lieu of formal deportations in the rising number of Mexican cases.”
Fear campaigns served as the primary expulsion method in the 1930s
T/F
True (46)
Which of the three deportation methods was used to deport 100s of Chinese people from Truckee, CA?
Self-deportation