Deportation emerged as a sanction for aliens who resisted wartime assimilation.
Evidence
A more extreme threat was that of deportation, the ultimate sanction of the roo per center. What better fate, indeed, did anyone who resisted assimilation deserve? Accordingly a bill to deport all aliens who would not apply for citizenship within three months was introduced in Congress in 1916, and during the war the idea of expulsion as an alternative to assimilation was frequently discussed, though it could not yet be implemented. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1497
Categorization
- XREF: The ‘assimilate or be expelled’ binary speaks to the reader’s question of what happens when the enemy refuses correction — the group escalates to expulsion. — connects to: Courts shifted from protecting aliens to endorsing state employment discrimination against them — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1087; Deportation transformed from administrative tool into weapon against radicals — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1312; Deportation expanded from enforcing immigration rules to an ideological loyalty test — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1316 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Immigration restrictions climaxed a wartime cascade of anti-foreign statutes
#corroborates(0.85) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1806 - Deportation functions as social control that discards surplus immigrant labor during crises
#expands(0.78) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 770 - Post-2001 deportation regimes discipline immigrant bodies through racialized fear
#corroborates(0.72) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 84