{"id":1286,"date":"2017-02-13T12:46:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T18:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2017-02-15T09:52:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T15:52:40","slug":"the-culture-of-mass-deportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2017\/02\/13\/the-culture-of-mass-deportation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Culture of Mass Deportation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Trump administration continues to ramp up policies that not only curb the flow of undocumented migrants into the United States, but also bolster an already formidable deportation system. Currently, many \u201c<\/span>Dreamers<\/span><\/a>\u201d protected by former president Obama\u2019s executive order are worried that president Trump will overturn this crucial immigration policy, which grants residency status to undocumented individuals that came to the United States as children prior to 2012. This unprecedented move could potentially lead to the detention and deportation of nearly 800,000 people. <\/span>Surprisingly, social science has found that immigration policy in the United States does not typically follow immigration patterns, but more often shaped by economic and political conditions. <\/span><\/p>\n

Many legal avenues for migration\u00a0to the United States were dismantled from the late 1950s through 1965, including the elimination of many temporary worker visas and country and hemispheric quotas. This policy shift resulted in an uptick in undocumented migrants from Latin America until the late 1970s, which subsequently tapered off with the passage of the Immigration and Reform Control Act in 1986. Due to this influx of undocumented immigrants, political rhetoric surrounding immigration took a punitive turn, fueling anti-immigrant sentiment and restrictionist policies with strict enforcement practices, especially during the mid 1990s through the 2000s. <\/span><\/h5>\n