David Holmes’s Reviews > The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants > Status Update
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Major themes of the first two chapters so far:
1. The goal of the US deportation system is to remove immigrants primarily through voluntary departure and self-deportation, by terrorizing and immiserating them, and the formal deportation process is too expensive to use except as a threat driving the other two processes.
2. Nothing about what the administration is doing now is new. It's an old, old playbook.
— Sep 27, 2026 11:59PM
1. The goal of the US deportation system is to remove immigrants primarily through voluntary departure and self-deportation, by terrorizing and immiserating them, and the formal deportation process is too expensive to use except as a threat driving the other two processes.
2. Nothing about what the administration is doing now is new. It's an old, old playbook.
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