“otherwise departs while an order of deportation is outstanding, the alien is considered to have "self- deported"; self-deportation carries the same legal consequences as departure under an order of deportation executed by the INS”
02/02/2012
The New York Times blog, and, following, them the Atlantic are claiming that the term "self-deportation" was invented by a pair of Latino comic activists in 1994, and that when Pete Wilson and others started using it, they had been pranked by the fictional character “Daniel D. Portado,”[Message “D. Portado” Twitter] and failed to get the joke. (The character — the name sounds like deportado — was the creation by two Mexican-American “satirists,” Lalo Alcaraz and Esteban Zul, who hated Pete Wilson and Proposotion 187. )
See The Deep Comic Roots of ‘Self-Deportation’, By Robert Mackey, NYT, February 1, 2012
This is not true, as you can find instantly by searching Google Books for self-deportation. For example in
1989 legalization handbook:how to obtain lawful residence under the new immigration laws By Sarah Reinhardt, National Immigration Project,
Clark Boardman Co., 1989-10-01
We see that there are 3 pages matching "self-deportation" including one that says that an alien who
“otherwise departs while an order of deportation is outstanding, the alien is considered to have "self- deported"; self-deportation carries the same legal consequences as departure under an order of deportation executed by the INS”
IT’s in the Code of Federal Regulations, 8 CFR §243.5(1990), and it goes back, in the 20th century, to 1914.
United States. Dept. of Labor — 1914 — (Annual Report Of The Commissioner Of Immigration — full text here)
(5) Prosecution of Pavlo Lesciak, for having imported one Kataryna Krawczuk for immoral purposes; held by United States commissioner, but United States attorney agreed to defendant’s offer of self -deportation at own expense.
So the Latino comedians did not invent the term, or the concept. All they did was impersonate Hispanic Republicans, but badly — actual Hispanic Republicans are frequently as disloyal as they are.
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