Since the passage of harsh new deportation laws in 1996, the United States has deported millions of noncitizens-many undocumented, but many others long-term legal residents with U.S. families-back to their countries of origin. The early Obama administration continued such aggressive deportation poli[...]
The topic of 'illegal' immigration has been a major aspect of public discourse in the United States and many other immigrant-receiving countries. From the beginning of its modern invocation in the early twentieth century, the often ill-defined epithet of human 'illegality' has figured prominently in[...]