Deportation Quotes

We are disappointed that the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) has granted bail to some of those individuals currently detained pending deportation. - Hazel Blears

Unless there's some intervention in the next few hours, the deportation may actually play out. - Sam Synard

Today's announcement fails to answer the fundamental question: will the government's deportation plans result in suspects being sent to countries with a known record of torture? - James Welch

They will postpone the deportations that were planned for tomorrow. - Astrid Van Genderen Stort

They were not deported because there was no deportation order. We just asked them to leave. - Mulako Mbangweta

They remind me of the deportation of the Jews out of Europe to the Warsaw ghetto. It's a horrible thing. - Sherry Cooper

They have no rights. They're illegal, and they're in our country. We want deportations. - Michelle Clark

The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation. - Tom Tancredo

The fact that family homes are invaded early in the morning by large groups of uniformed men who waken children in their beds, handcuff the parents in front of the children, and then take them away with perhaps about half an hour's notice in a van to a prison or for immediate deportation; I think that's absolutely outrageous. - Kathleen Marshall

The bottom line is that NSEERS is a failed and unfair program. An understaffed INS (Immigration and Naturalization Services) couldn't implement the program and almost 14,000 of those who complied were placed in deportation proceedings. - James Zogby