Logistics Gone Wrong: Enabling Large-Scale Migrant Deportations

Abstract

Efficiency without ethical safeguards can destroy human lives. The 2025 U.S. deportation program called Homeland Integrity demonstrates how managerial rationality can transform people into logistical units, normalize systemic coercion, and obscure human accountability.

Keywords

algorithmic logistical harm deportation ethical risk migrants

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