It situates deportation within a national and international legal framework shedding light on the process of immigrant removal and the limits of immigration officials power 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. 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. In addition to the developing national deportation policy an evolving international legal regime structured immigrant removals one illustrative case of this structuring power took place in 1884 when german immigration authorities sought to deport a us citizen named constant a golly. Before 1882 the us federal government had never formally deported anyone but that year an act of congress made chinese workers the first group of immigrants eligible for deportation over the next forty years lawmakers and judges expanded deportable categories to include prostitutes anarchists the sick and various kinds of criminals