Word: deportations
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...Young Turk government regarded Turkish Armenians as a dangerous source of instability, and decided to deport the entire Armenian population of 1.75 million. In what some claim was the first genocide of the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of Armenians were driven from their homes and killed. Tens of thousands emigrated to Russia, the Middle East, France and the U.S. There are currently less than 65,000 Armenians living in Turkey itself. Turks reject the accusation of genocide, stating that Armenians were among the many civilians to die in one of the most violent periods of human history...
...Restaurant Employees Union last year, management called in the INS, and they were hauled off to jail. But the union posted their bonds, the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission launched an investigation, and the hotel agreed to pay a $72,000 settlement. The INS, which had at first threatened to deport the illegal maids, agreed to let seven of the eight remain in the U.S. "Companies across America love illegal aliens until they get uppity and ask for a few more cents," said Michael Moore, the activist filmmaker, who used an Internet appeal to pressure the INS for leniency...
...result? John Lennon was on the receiving end of a four-year campaign of FBI surveillance and INS harassment. In 1975 the INS chief counsel on the case resigned his position, telling Rolling Stone that the U.S. government was being more vigorous in its attempts to deport John Lennon than it was in its attempts to expel Nazi war criminals...
...comes down to 2,000 absentee ballots cast overseas. In the 10 days we spend waiting for the ballots to arrive and be counted, Bush and Gore decide to forgo this silly election and join together in a coalition called "The Demopublicans." Their first act as president is to deport Ralph Nader to Greenland. Hey, he asked...
...Disgraced Republican president Richard Nixon spent several years illegally using the FBI and the INS to harass and try to deport the ex-Beatle in the early '70s because of his opposition to the Vietnam War and Nixon's 1972 reelection...