Deportation transformed from administrative tool into weapon against radicals
Evidence
In deportation the nation grasped its absolute weapon against the foreign-born radical. During the World War, deportation assumed a wholly new significance. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it had had a purely instrumental function. It was a way of enforcing the existing laws regulating immigration-a way of sending back recently admitted aliens who should have been stopped at the port of entry because of specific excludable quali- ties. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1312
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Deportation expanded from enforcing immigration rules to an ideological loyalty test — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1316; Political dissidence plus Muslim identity turned a trivial immigration error into a deportation case — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 890; The War on Terror created deportable subjects racialized as illegal and criminal — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 647 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Deportation expanded from enforcing immigration rules to an ideological loyalty test
#corroborates(0.90) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1316 - Political dissidence plus Muslim identity turned a trivial immigration error into a deportation case
#corroborates(0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 890 - Immigration law’s permanent exception powers were repurposed for the war on terror
#expands(0.85) - The War on Terror created deportable subjects racialized as illegal and criminal
#corroborates(0.80) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 647 - Deportation emerged as a sanction for aliens who resisted wartime assimilation.
#exemplifies(0.75) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1497