List of people deported from the United States

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The following is an incomplete list of notable individuals that have been deported from the United States. The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the United States Department of Homeland Security handles deportation in the United States.[1] Aside from the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 there was no applicable deportation law in the United States until an 1882 statute specifically geared towards Chinese immigrants.[1] The Alien and Sedition Acts gave the President of the United States the power to arrest and subsequently deport any alien that he deemed as dangerous.[2] The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act was designed to suspend Chinese immigration to the United States, and deport Chinese residents that were termed as illegally residing in the country.[2] The types of individuals that could be deported from the United States was later reclassified to include those who were insane or carrying a disease, convicts, prostitutes, those entering the United States over the immigration quotas, anarchists, and those that belonged to organizations which supported the overthrow of the United States government by use of violence.[1][2]

Legislation enacted by the United States Congress in 1891 gave a time limit of one year after an alien entered the country for the individual to be deported and decreased judicial review of deportation proceedings.[2] The office of superintendent of immigration in the Department of the Treasury was also created with the 1891 enactment, and this responsibility later passed to the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the United States Department of Justice.[2] During the Red Scare in 1919, a number of persons were deported under suspicion of illegal activity.[1] The statute of limitations on deportation from the United States was removed under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952.[1] Deportation laws were cited during the 1950s in order to remove union leaders and alleged members of the Communist party said to be illegal immigrants to the country.[2] According to Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, about 23,000 aliens were deported annually from the country during the latter period of the 1980s.[2]

Subsequent to the establishment of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, deportation and exclusion began to be referred to as "removal" proceedings.[3] If an individual is deemed by the government to be removable, they will receive a removal order and then are required to leave the United States.[3] Any individual that is not a United States citizen can be deported from the country.[3] Those individuals that illegally immigrated to the United States constitute the single largest portion of people deported from the country.[1] Once deported, an alien is not allowed to reenter the country unless given special permission to do so by the United States Attorney General.[1] The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency placed 164,000 criminals into deportation proceedings in 2007, and estimated that figure would be 200,000 for 2008.[4] In 2001 approximately 73,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions were deported from the United States, and in 2007 this figure was 91,000.[4]

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Mazen Al Najjar - accused of being part of PIJ (Palestinian Islamic Jihad) leadership, he was also the editor of WISE (World and Islam Enterprise)'s journal, Qira'aat Siyasiyyah (Political Readings). He attended numerous conferences where terror fundraising was discussed. He also committed a series of immigration violations, from a simple overstay of his student's visa to his fraudulent marriage to a U.S. citizen for the purpose of obtaining permanent resident status. Prior to his deportation, Al Najjar was detained as a threat to national security after eight years of litigation (1994–2002) and nearly four years in detention in Florida. Deportation ordered on May 13, 1997 but not carried out until 2002.

Andrija Artukovic - World War II war criminal; co-founder and leader of the Ustase; deported from the United States in 1986; died two years later in Zagreb.[5]

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Cedric Belfrage and wife Molly Castle - British writer and his wife were deported as Communists in 1955 during the McCarthy era. Cedric Belfrage did not return to the United States until 1973, touring the country with his book, The American Inquisition (Bobbs Merrill, 1973, Siglo XXI, Mexico, Thunder' Mouth Press, 1989).

Trevor Berbick - Jamaican heavyweight boxer, fought as a professional from 1976 until 2000. Arrested and served jail time for sexually assaulting the family baby sitter in 1992, deported from the United States in 1997 after violating his parole.[6][7]

Hermine Braunsteiner - Female Nazi concentration guard; first Nazi to be deported from the United States. Denaturalized and extradited to West Germany in 1973.[8]

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Joe Cahill - Prominent Irish republican and former Chief of Staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA); he was deported from the United States in 1984 for illegal entry.[9][10]

Charlie Chaplin - British actor and director; de facto deportation from the United States when he was denied a re-entry permit to the U.S. after a trip abroad, exiling Chaplin so he could not return. This was reportedly instigated by J. Edgar Hoover allegedly due to Chaplin's political leanings. Chaplin decided not to re-enter the United States. He did not return to the U.S. until 1972, when he made a brief visit, making an appearance at the Academy Awards telecast to thunderous applause and ovations.[11]

Anna Chapman (née Kushchyenko) - Soviet-born Russian national, who was arrested along with nine others (including Vicky Peláez) and later deported on July 9, 2010, on suspicion of working for the Illegals Program spy ring under the Russian Federation's external intelligence agency, the SVR. Chapman was later stripped of her naturalized British citizenship.[12]

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John Demjanjuk - Alleged Nazi war criminal from Ukraine naturalized as a US citizen in 1958. After trial and acquittal in Israel, denaturalized in 2002, and finally deported in 2009 to Germany, which had filed war crimes charges.[13]

Joseph P. Doherty - PIRA volunteer who was deported in 1992, after a 10 year legal battle.[14]

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Simon "Senya" Fleshin - Ukraine-born anarchist, later a political activist and photographer. Deported on September 27, 1923; placed aboard a ship bound for Germany.[15]

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Johanna Gadski - German operatic soprano singer. She was declared an enemy alien and deported from the United States during World War I.[16]

Marcus Garvey - Founder of Universal Negro Improvement Association. Convicted of fraud related to sale of stock in one of his businesses, and deported in 1927 and returned to Jamaica.[17][18]

Peter Gatien - Canadian-born businessman and New York nightclub owner. Plead guilty to felony tax-evasion and removed to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2003.[19]

Emma Goldman - Anarchist and political activist, deported from the United States to Soviet Russia in 1919.[20][21]

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C. L. R. James - Afro-Trinidadian journalist, socialist theorist, deported from the United States in 1953.[22][23]

Claudia Jones - Afro-Caribbean Black Nationalist and political activist who was deported from the United States in 1955 under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 for being a Communist. She was granted asylum in the U.K.[24][25]

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