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Born in East L.A.
1987 · Film · 84 min
Directed by Cheech Marin
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!
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Not so harsh. A bit more nuanced like in this movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_in_East_L.A._(film)
Chong:) Look here el fago, watch my lips Where were ya born?
(Cheech:) I was BORN IN EAST L.A. Man, I was BORN IN EAST L.A.
(Chong:) Oh yeah, you were BORN IN EAST L.A. Let's see your green card
(Cheech:) Huh? Green card? I'm from East LA
Governments in almost all liberal democracies (and all other forms of governments for that matter) reserve the right to deport foreigners without cause or due process.
In fact many foreigners have been deported or denied entry without cause (no protesting necessary).
This practice predates W Bush era in the US. Anecdotally it has become more common since W Bush onwards. Hard stats are hard to come by as it is not publicly available data in the US at least.
This is an example of even American citizens being deported in the 1950s under President Eisenhower:
“ The short-lived operation used military-style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants—some of them American citizens—from the United States.“
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback
A comedy on US citizen being deported in the 1980s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_in_East_L.A._(film)