Doak encouraged local immigration officers, law enforcement agencies, and repatriation-sympathetic newspapers to join forces to publicize deportation raids, frightening many Mexicans into self-deportation.
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Self-deportation
Synonyms for "self-deportation"
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German
1 entries- freiwillige Ausreise noun (act of deporting oneself)
Korean
1 entries- 자진 추방 noun (act of deporting oneself)
Spanish
1 entries- autodeportación noun (act of deporting oneself)
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But in a show of one of the lucid flashes common to dementia, Fabian executed a document in which he stated he was not requesting a ticket for self-deportation, but only for a visit to Nigeria.
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As mentioned earlier, Romney said that he would address the issue of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States through a policy of “self-deportation.”
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Even noted opponents of convict colonialism such as Alexander Merensky noted that the utility of transportation was already well understood by those amongst the urban poor who had, he argued, resorted to 'self-deportation' through mass emigration to better their lives.
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