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Constant headlines about deportations, detention camps, and border walls drive urgent debates about immigration and what it means to be an American in the twenty-first century. This text traces the long and troubling history of the U.S. government's systematic efforts to terrorize and expel immigrants over the past 140 years. The book provides needed historical perspective on one of the most pressing social and political issues of our time. It examines how federal, state, and local officials have targeted various groups for expulsion, from Chinese and Europeans at the turn of the twentieth century to Central Americans and Muslims today. It reveals how authorities have singled out Mexicans, nine out of ten of all deportees, and removed most of them not by orders of immigration judges but through coercive administrative procedures and calculated fear campaigns.

Deportation --- Emigration and immigration law --- Immigrants --- Citizenship --- Emigration and immigration --- Immigration law --- Law, Emigration --- Law, Immigration --- International travel regulations --- Expulsion --- Asylum, Right of --- Extradition --- Refoulement --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- History. --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- United States --- Government policy --- America for Americans. --- American history. --- Chinese immigrants. --- Daniel Kanstroom. --- Deportation Nation. --- Ellis Island. --- Erika Lee. --- Inventing the Immigration Problem. --- Irish immigrants. --- Islamophobia. --- Italian immigrants. --- Jewish immigrants. --- Katherine Benton-Cohen. --- Trump’s wall. --- anti-Mexican sentiment. --- anti-immigration policy. --- border wall. --- citizenship. --- deportees. --- detention camps. --- illegal immigration. --- illegals. --- immigration history. --- immigration policy. --- immigration reform. --- migrants. --- multiculturalism. --- racism. --- refugee crisis. --- refugees. --- xenophobia. --- Government policy.