Comment by mschuster91

> Deporting criminals is in no way a new concept.

Whoops. Yeah, worded the original post badly. My intent was that it is relatively new that this is a policy under active (and heated) discussion.

> In fact, it used to be commonplace to deport your own citizens, not just foreigners. The modern nation of Australia exists as a result of such a policy!

Which just proves my last point... it's in almost all scenarios really really bad for the destination country. The Australian Indigenous people have been driven to the point of extinction by that policy.

> Incidentally, if Germany had deported a foreigner who led an attempted coup d'etat, perhaps it would have saved tens of millions of lives.

German here. I don't think it would have changed much. Sure, Hitler was undoubtedly charismatic... but even the most charismatic demagogue needs a desperate populace. If it weren't Hitler, someone else would have risen - a lot of powerful interests were aiming for the final collapse of the Weimar Republic, which is part of the reason why Hitler got off with a slap on the wrist, and part of the reason why he did get elected legitimately a decade later.