Trumpism Deportation Program Leads The World In Deportation Of Nationals

"Our view of the law is that it - if somebody is here without sufficient documentation, that is not reason for deportation." ~ Nancy Pelosi

"Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation. That is what it means to have laws and to have a country. Otherwise we don't have a country." ~ Donald Trump

"The destination of the deportation is annihilation." ~ Talaat Pasha

"As long as being a stranger and surrounded by strangers was seen as a temporary irritant, a smallest departure from the binding rules of conduct by a member of a minority, was taken for a major crime justifying deportation." ~ Zygmunt Bauman

"These folks are telling Donald Trump that if he tries to move out on his plan to have a deportation squad, to harm Americans, and if he does - and if he has - he tries to do that, we're going to be there to stand and say no. We don't - we oppose his misogyny. We oppose his picking on people of different ethnic and religious groups." ~ Keith Ellison

If you watch how the majority of countries approach immigration these days, you can't rule out the issue of discrimination and racism motivating their deportations. Foreign nationals across the world are being deported in their thousands in 2024 and 2025 on the flimsy pretext of securing national security, controlling borders, or responding to political pressure. But if you examine these operations more closely, you see a common thread of injustice targeted towards the marginalized.

In the USA, you have the return of draconian immigration legislation under President Donald Trump's government. In the first three months of 2025 alone, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, made 145,000 arrests!

Student visas and families with green cards for over a decade are being revoked for the most trivial infractions and many have no fractions whatsoever, showing just how rapidly people, particularly those in vulnerable people of color populations, can be stripped of opportunity and hope.

Looking to Algeria, the picture grows even bleaker.

Algeria itself deported over 30,000 Nigerien migrants in 2024, most of whom were pushed across the harsh desert into Niger. In April 2025, more than 1,800 migrants were stranded at an arid site only referred to as "Point Zero" before they were pushed into the Assamaka town. Racial and ethnic prejudices inform policies which disregard human dignity.

You see xenophobia rising in Russia after a terror attack on Moscow, attributed to Tajik nationals.

Instead of striking the criminals, the government responded by actually doubling up expulsions of migrants. In 2024, more than 80,000 migrants from Central Asian countries like Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan were expelled. The mass punishment of communities as a whole on the grounds of their nationality betrays the extent of racial and ethnic prejudice inherent in state action.

Pakistan's reaction has not been less sinister.

Towards the end of 2023, the government launched an aggressive removal campaign against Afghan immigrants with an aim to push out one million individuals by January 2024. Before that deadline, over 813,000 individuals, Afghan nationals, had been forced to leave. Observe how security concerns are generally exaggerated as a means of rationalizing racialized mass removals, sanctioning the displaced and vulnerable individuals without offering any real solutions.

In the Dominican Republic, you observe the extreme case of racial discrimination masked as immigration enforcement.

While Haiti experienced violence, political and economic instability, Haitians poured across the border by the thousands, fleeing for their lives. Instead of extending help, the government of the Dominican Republic released plans in October 2024 to send 10,000 Haitians per week back into instability and chaos. As many as 250,000 Haitians were sent back alone in 2023. Human rights groups have strongly condemned the actions, accusing the government of racial profiling and outrageous contempt for international law.