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We Should Stop Saying "Deportation" and Start Saying "Repatriation" and "Going Home" For Illegal Aliens Being Returned; And U.S. immigration enforcement should emphasize how the repatriation is safer than their original journey

(Steve Welsh - SCW 11.11.24)

In this day and age, "talkers" sometimes seem to outnumber "doers," giving inflated significance to "messaging,""narratives," "tone,"and the feelings of "target audiences."

Repatriation and Homegoing Rather Than "Deportation"

Deportation should be renamed repatriation and, more informally, homegoing.

That is especially the case considering the entrenched state of denial that seems to weigh upon illegal aliens and their aficionados.

Illegal aliens should be repatriated, safely and respectfully assisted with going home, where their true neighbors are waiting for them.

After growing outrage over massive lawlessness, failed screenings of dangerous individuals, or massive bad faith attempts to "game the system," such as with baseless asylum claims, some citizens might find it cathartic to speak of "kicking out" offenders.

Yet it still might be better to talk of the United States helping guests who have outstayed their welcome to "go home," to get back among their true neighbors.

A Neglected Situation Snowballing

The need for repatriations of a massive scope is necessitated by law, as well as public safety and strained resources. Its magnitude is snowballing due to past neglect and deficiencies, lingering delays, insufficient attention and inadequate action.

Safe Returns Home

Passage to, and into, the United States, for illegal aliens has often reputedly been quite dangerous and harmful in many respects.

The United States should emphasize how the return trips for repatriated illegal aliens, homegoings, whether through the air or on the ground, is likely safer and more respectful than some of the dangerous journeys they undertook to arrive into the United States in the first place.

One interesting question will be the extent to which the United States should invest even more in a safe, comfortable passage home that, in most cases, would be safer than the original arrival.

Conversely, rewarding illegal alienism in any way would simply encourage it to continue. Allowing the illegal aliens to remain, through formal amnesty or habitual inertia of inaction would simply invite more of the same.

That is one of the reasons that formal, or vague de facto, amnesty would be disrespectful of human life and harmful to the very goups supposedly celebrated by it.

Children

An added concern, of course, is that of illegal alien children.

Using children as human shields, deliberately subjecting them to harms and dangers associated with unlawful activity, in the hopes gaining sympathy for the law-breaking, itself could be indicative of callous child endangerment calling for intervention against the adults endangering the children.

Key Words: Deportation, Mass Deportations, Illegal Aliens, Illegals, Immigration Enforcement, Repatriation, Homegoing, Going Home, Children