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How is deporting someone a violent act?

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Are you serious? It's a violation of self-determination by use of force.

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I am totally serious. Deportation screams non-citizen. Don't forget that IMPORTANT little bit of information.

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We were talking about violence, not citizenship status. Forced relocation is violent. Period.

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Sorry, but I am just not following you. I asked how deporting someone is violent. You responded, but failed to do so fully. I think in this case the citizenship status certainly IS important because we are talking about a deportation. Not a "forced relocation". At least those were the words used. If you wanted to talk about something else, perhaps clarifying would have been prudent.

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Explain how an act can be "violent" when the victim has some arbitrary status decided by the state and magically NOT violent when that victim has some other status decided by the state.

Deporting citizens might be more reprehensible than deporting non-citizens, but I don't see how one is violent and one is not.

Deportation is a forced relocation. The FORCE part of that is what makes it a violent act.