• Evkob (they/them)@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    Some of my ancestors suffered through the Expulsion of the Acadians and that’s widely referred to as a deportation, despite most Acadians not being “sent back where they came from”.

    I’m not sure your definition of deportation is widely accepted. None of the dictionaries I consulted mention any implications of deportations specifically referring to sending people to their country of origin.

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      22 hours ago

      My point was that deportation is a legal process. What Trump is doing, is bypassing that legal process altogether.