Deportation Quotes

“When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

“If we bend over backwards to help immigrants and they throw that assistance back in our faces by committing crime then the punitive sentences should be double what would normally be expected, and upon serving their sentence they should be deported immediately.”
― Karl Wiggins, 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again

“The Home Office informs us that there are around 400 ex-offenders from overseas currently seeking refuge in this country. One geezer, who has 78 offences to his name, managed to escape deportation on the grounds that he’s an alcoholic! Drinking alcohol, it seems, is illegal in his homeland, so because he claims he’ll be persecuted and tortured we’ve said, “Oh, bad show, old chap. Tough call that. Enjoy a spot of scotch myself from time to time. Quite understandable. Well why don’t you stay here at our expense? You’ll be able to fondle and grope any woman you like. We’d never deport you for that, I can assure you. You’ll be perfectly safe here.”
― Karl Wiggins, 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again

“You cannot deport 110,000 people unless you have stopped seeing individuals. Of course, for such a thing to happen, there has to be a kind of acquiescence on the part of the victims, some submerged belief that this treatment is deserved, or at least allowable.”
― Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

“There are white moms who threw stones at the little girls in Little Rock and there are white moms who wish Andres and Omar and Elias and Greta's mom will be deported too.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

“Hvis du tar til orde for at Europa en gang skal bli fritt for muslimer, tar du samtidig til orde, i beste fall, for en tvangsdeportering av mer enn femti millioner mennesker vekk fra det europeiske kontinentet. I verste fall tar du til orde for voldshandlinger mot en religiøs gruppering som allerede er sterkt utsatt for fordommer og hets. Hvis målet ditt er at islam skal utryddes fra Europa, kan du ikke samtidig påstå at du er fredelig sjel som aldri har hatt som formål å skade noen. Du må skjønne at politikken du forfekter faktisk handler om mennesker. Og du må tåle å bli møtt med motargumenter. At noen motsier argumentene dine betyr ikke at du knebles. Det betyr at du deltar i debatten.”
― Trine Skei Grande, Ytringsfrihet: 10 essays

“Listening to quiet, miserable voices is in his job description.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“The act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness.
What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly.”
― Pope Francis

“None of the store's balloons seemed right. They offered birthday wishes, congrats on a new baby, but nothing to celebrate the reunion of a mother and child after a government-engineered separation. Then Laurie spotted some early-bird Valentine's balloons. They were red, heart-shaped, and printed with the simple words Te quiero. I love you.”
― Margaret Regan, Detained and Deported: Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire

“Deporting people from the only country they've ever known is *slightly* worse than sexual masochism, imo.”
― T.J. Kirk

“You fooled us. Render your work, not your lives.
This seems like the newest answer to an old question.
Cheap muscle and blood to build you an Empire-
that we can't stay in. Gran's gone missing from
Saturday morning. Brixton Market? No one is frowning at
the quality of the yams, or asking how the snapper's
eye so cloudy. There'll be no Saturday soup tonight.”
― Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise

“I remember wondering what it must feel like to belong to American whiteness and to know you can do whatever you want because nobody you love is deportable. Your worst crime might get you locked up forever but they'll never take away your claim to this country.”
― Patricia Engel, Infinite Country

“Cette image d'enfant favorite, voire un peu capricieuse, m'a longtemps collé à la peau. A tel point qu'à notre retour de déportation, lorsque ma soeur aîné a revu une amie, celle-ci a eu l'inconscience de lui lancer: "J'espère qu'au moins la déportation aura mis un peu de plomb dans la cervelle de Simone!" Losque Milou m'a rapporté la réflexion, j'ai été abasourdie. Quelle bizarre époque que ces années-là, où les gens n'avaient pas toujours conscience de l'impact de leurs propos.”
― Simone Veil, Une vie

“Dusk had fallen, and shadows loomed larger than life. An eerie mask of quiet enveloped the houses like some foreboding fog. Anyone hiding within nearby walls hardly dared to breathe, fearing getting dragged from their homes and added to the forced deportation march.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin

“Since 2003, ICE has locked up over two million people. If the FIRRP data hold across detention centers and one percent of these occupants are U.S. citizens, then since 2003, ICE has incarcerated over 20,000 U.S. citizens, and deported thousands more.”
― Jacqueline Stevens, U.S. Government Unlawfully Detaining and Deporting U.S. Citizens as Aliens

“For eighty years convicts had been shipped to Australia, and a total of 163000 had set out on that voyage from which few returned. In the modern history of Europe there was rarely a planned deportation on a more ambitious scale until the era of Stalin and Hitler.”
― Geoffrey Blainey, The Story of Australia’s People Vol. I: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia

“I had been terrified of Arizona cops since high school when more than one threatened to deport me during traffic stops. Being a US citizen didn't mean anything to them when my complexion wasn't light enough. I was always scared that they wouldn't bother with the paperwork and instead would take matters into their own hands to get rid of me.”
― Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

“the town had been the arrival port for thousands of Yoeme people, deported from Sonora in the first years of the twentieth century, under the regime of Porfirio Díaz. People who had been forcibly removed from their homes and villages because of their resistance to the opening of their ancestral land — the largest, most fertile river valley in Mexico — to make way for Mexican and American venture capitalists.”
― Anna Hope, The White Rock

“Mass deportation is human trafficking.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“God is a Gypsy* (Sonnet)

Kindness is my constitution,
selflessness is divine sanity.
To be human takes no scripture,
living gospel takes humanity.

Men of ritual, men of blind worship,
will never know the breath of life,
which in a way, is animal blessing,
to know life is to be restless with light.

To know light is to be restless,
to know life is to be breathless,
only those without life can sit still,
for blindness is boon to the savages.

The name is *Gitano - Abigitano;
accused of freedom by alien hunters.
War is legal, human trafficking is legal,
genocide is legal, child-bombing is legal,
and you call this civilized and religious!”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“An American Prayer (Divine Comedy, Sonnet)

The other day I was having a chat with God,
she was telling me about the prayers flooding
in from America, all claiming extreme religiousness:

let our wall stand bold and tall,
fighting off all indigenous impurities,
let us paint it pitch black,
so it's too hot to be climbed by the savages;

now let us deport every last trace of sense,
let us deport all who defy our holy faith -
let us ban all blacks, whites, muslims alike,
whoever talks the nonsense of tolerance.

Then the Holy Mother sighed in despair, and said,
"and to think they are doing all that in my name!"
So I paused for a moment, then I grinned -
why not grant their wishes, then flood the entire Eden!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop