All 7 Uses of
deport
in
Obasan
- Deportation on racial grounds has been defined as a crime against humanity,
Chpt 7 *deportation = forcing someone to leave a country
- Bar Japs from B.C. Claim Deportation of Japs Violates International Law.†
Chpt 7
- Excerpt from the memorandum sent by the Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians to the House and the Senate of Canada, April 1946 It is urgently submitted that the Orders-in-Council [for the deportation of Canadians of Japanese racial origin] are wrong and indefensible and constitute a grave threat to the rights and liberties of Canadian citizens, and that Parliament as guardian of these rights and the representative of the people, should assert its powers and require the Governor-in-Council to withdraw the Orders, for the following reasons.†
Chpt 39
- Deportation on racial grounds has been defined as a crime against humanity, and the war criminals of Germany and Japan are being tried for precisely this offense, amongst others.†
Chpt 39
- The proposed deportations are in no way related to any war emergency.†
Chpt 39
- If any of those concerned have been disloyal, there is ample power under the Immigration and Naturalization Acts for their deportation after proper inquiry into individual cases.†
Chpt 39deportation = forcing someone to leave a country
- The Orders for deportation purport to be based on alleged requests to be sent to Japan.†
Chpt 39
Definitions:
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(1)
(deport as in: deport from the U.S.) force someone to leave a country
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(2)
(deport as in: deport herself with dignity) behave in a certain manner