mass deportation
Large-scale forced removal
Mass deportation is the forcible removal of large numbers of people from a country, typically targeting specific ethnic, national, or immigration-status groups.
Unlike individual deportations processed case by case, mass deportation implies systematic, large-scale operations: The administration promised mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.
Historically associated with ethnic cleansing and authoritarian regimes, the term carries ominous connotations even when applied to immigration enforcement.
- exileBanishment from homeland
- expulsionForced permanent removal
- removalAct of taking away
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
- bordersLines separating regions
border patrol · detention · detention centers · ICE · immigration raids · raids · undocumented · undocumented workers · immigrants · buses · camps · roundup · forced · families · family separation · separation · papers · green card
- persecutionHolocaust, pogrom, genocide, pogroms, ethnic cleansing
- deportationremoval, expulsion, reinstatement, exclusion, family separation
- MongoliaGobi Desert, Inner Mongolia, steppe, Mongols, nomads
mass deportationblanket amnesty
Unconditional forgiveness for all
open borders · path to citizenship · regularization · refugee resettlement · open-door policy
mass, masses, massive, massively, massiveness, massed, massing, deportation, deport