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Tanya Golash-Boza on Proposals to Deport 11 Million

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Prof. Tanya Golash-Boza (University of Kansas) has written an article in the Nation (which originally appeared on TomDispatch.com), “How Many Presidents Does it Take to Deport 11 Million People?”, which discusses the impossibility of Presidential candidates’ proposals to deport the entire undocumented population in the US.  Some excerpts from the piece are below: 

  • “ On the issue of deportations, the Republican presidential hopefuls differ in only one tiny way: Trump claims he will allow the “really good” immigrants to return, while Cruz wants to get rid of every last undocumented immigrant permanently.”
  • “So let’s put this simply: There is no quick and easy way to deport millions of people from the United States, in part because we are a nation that values individual rights and requires at least some semblance of a process before a person is uprooted from his or her home or workplace. It is not within the purview of the executive branch to topple existing laws and judicial processes in order to carry out the mass removal of a significant segment of the population.”
  • “Should Donald Trump or Ted Cruz win the presidency, they are guaranteed to make life hell for millions of undocumented human beings living in and working extremely hard in this country, and their plans would fail dismally—but that failure would undoubtedly prove to be a horror all its own.”

-JKoh