How where and whether someone was deported depended in part on ones race and nationality after the supreme courts decision in fong yue ting v united states 1893declared deportation to be a way to protect the nation rather than punish noncitizens most immigrants lost the ability to contest their expulsions hester details how the creation of two separate deportation policies during the exclusion era enabled chinese immigrants to petition for a writ of habeas corpus and fight their . In deportation the origins of us policy torrie hester traces the rise of the nations deportation regime from 1882 to 1924 while scholars such as daniel ka. Deportation covers the uncertain beginnings of american deportation policy and recounts the halting and uncoordinated steps that were taken as it emerged from piecemeal actions in congress and courtrooms across the country to become an established national policy by the 1920s usually viewed from within the nation deportation policy also plays a part in geopolitics deportees after all have to be sent somewhere. Deportation the origins of us policy is a tour de force of us policy history detailing how deportation was born as a lawful practice in the late nineteenth century and tracking its steady expansion into the twentieth century moreover it follows the story beyond us borders to examine the world in which us immigration was made