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Despite the fact that US officials have targeted people for so many different reasons, the vast

majority, 85-90% of people throughout US history who have been deported, have been Mexicans

that have done nothing other than enter the country without inspection.

Futurla media, it's Latino USA, I'm Mariano Jose.

Today, breaking down the United States deportation machine.

There's a good chance that during this pandemic, you've had something of an awakening around

the importance of immigrant labor.

In fact, you've probably benefited from immigrant labor, likely just today.

Maybe it was immigrants who picked the fresh produce sitting in your fridge, or maybe that's

how your online delivery arrived at your door this morning.

The United States wouldn't operate without its immigrant workforce, and that's held true

for most of this country's history.

And yet, many of those same essential workers are also constantly living under threat of

the deportation machine.

That's how Professor Adam Goodman describes the United States' systemic efforts to expel

non-citizens.

Goodman, a professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois

at Chicago, spent the last 10 years researching this history for his book, The Deportation

Machine, America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants.

Through the book, Professor Goodman explores how the machine actually works.

The deportation of immigrants has been enabled and enforced by Republican and Democratic

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