Quotes About Deportations

The parade, the participation of children, the public mockery, the photographs - all of these were essential elements of prewar anti-Jewish actions. The public humiliation of Jews in German localities followed a script from 1933 through the deportations in 1941-1943. Germans knew this script and followed it as they deported the Jews.

Tiberius and Drusus decided to prevent a future Alpine revolt by a simple but brutal means: mass deportations

There will be no use of military forces in immigration. There will be no - repeat, no - mass deportations.

We need to increase deportations.

Q: Until you actually reached Auschwitz, you had no idea that the deportations to the East were for the purpose of extermination? A: No, I did not know this and we did not know it. We knew very well that the London radio spoke about the gas chambers, but we didn't take it at all seriously. We thought it was propaganda—we didn't believe it was really so.

The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.

In an important departure from tradition, the commission singled out Turkish massacres and deportations of Armenian civilians as being so grotesque that—although they had not been specifically banned by the Hague and Geneva conventions—these actions were inherently criminal under the most elementary norms of human behavior. This was, they said, a "crime against humanity

Obama set a record number of deportations of illegal immigrants in 2011, but that fact alone is misleading. Obama has spoken in favor of and has urged Congress to pass the DREAM Act, a bill that would allow young undocumented immigrants to stay in America, their home, and achieve citizenship by going to college or serving in the military.

These problems were particularly knotty in situations where the Nazis had "legalized" their acts of persecution by announcing laws and decrees that ordered deportations, compulsory labor, or seizure of property.