History Main / OppressiveImmigrationEnforcement

** PlayedForLaughs in Season 5 when Susan embarks on a CitizenshipMarriage to stop Jackson from being deported since he overstayed his welcome on his visa. Though most of the housewives are supportive, it's a RunningGag that characters (Katherine in particular, who wants Susan to marry Jackson) agree that they ''can't'' let Jackson go back to the big bad country of...[[CanadaEh Canada.]] Dave also furthers his revenge plot against Susan by reporting Jackson and getting him deported on their wedding day.

** PlayedForLaughs in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E6MidnightRx "Midnight Rx"]] when the up to that point [[CanadaEh friendly and personal Canadian]] Border Patrol aggressively react upon mistaking Apu for a vocal Muslim (Apu had burned his tongue on Ned's coffee [[NotWhatItLooksLike causing him to start ululating, so Ned wraps a towel around his head to cool him off]]), with multiple agents pulling guns on them. To hammer it home, the same agents behave much more reasonably and professionally when they discover the group are really smuggling prescription drugs.

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* ''Series/{{Deputy}}'': [[CowboyCop Bill Hollister]] sees ICE in this regard and holds their tactics in utter contempt, seeing this as a flagrant abuse of power and an insult to everything being a Sheriff's deputy stands for, with the first episode involving him facing disciplinary actions for disrupting an ICE-coordinated raid using the LA Sherriff's deputies. Upon becoming [[TheSheriff Sheriff]], Hollister makes it clear to the senior ICE official that under his command the Sheriff's office will no longer support them in or participate in raids or mass roundups, only in the arrest of specific fugitives determined through the proper channels, despite [[PointyHairedBoss Undersheriff Jerry London]] pointing out this will cost them the massive federal grant the cooperation nets them.

This trope is likewise often used by the [[WriterOnBoard writers to express their own views on real-life immigration policies]].

* ''Literature/TheMissing'': After Jonah starts trying to investigate the circumstances of his adoption, supposed FBI Agent Mr. Reardon threatens to arrest Jonah's parents and deport Jonah. Notably, Jonah is only thirteen and was adopted as a baby and Reardon refuses to even tell Jonah where he might be deported to.

* ''Literature/WildCards'': In this series of superhero novels, there is a great example in the novel "Mississippi Roll". In an early novel, Kazakhstan suffered an extradimensional incursion from Lovecraftian horrors. Kazach "jokers" (as the mutated victims of the wild card virus are called) are scapegoated and a lot of them flee to the US. The immigration policy of the Conservative US administration is very callous, and the ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents are among the villains of the novel. It is remarkable that long-standing protagonist Carnifex (he's been a superhuman agent for the Department of Défense since the 1980s) finally resigns in disgust, taking other heroic agents with him, instead of continuing to cooperate with the immigration agents tasked with rounding up the Kazach jokers.

SubTrope of OrderIsNotGood, when law and order in general, are presented as anti-freedom and oppressive, and PoliticallyIncorrectVillain.

* ''Series/{{Deputy}}'': [[CowboyCop Bill Hollister]] see's ICE in this regard and holds their tactics in utter contempt, seeing this as a flagrant abuse of power and an insult to everything being a Sheriff's deputy stands for, with the first episode involving him facing disciplinary actions for disrupting an ICE-coordinated raid using the LA Sherriff's deputies. Upon becoming [[TheSheriff Sheriff]], Hollister makes it clear to the senior ICE official that under his command the Sheriff's office will no longer support them in or participate in raids or mass roundups, only in the arrest of specific fugitives determined through the proper channels, despite [[PointyHairedBoss Undersheriff Jerry London]] pointing out this will cost them the massive federal grant the cooperation nets them.

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---> Border Guard: Stop him! [[FelonyMisdemeanour He's expressing his faith, eh!]]

* ''Series/{{SWAT|2017}}'':

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* In ''Das Känguru-Manifest'' ("The Kangaroo Manifesto") by Creator/MarcUweKling, a right-wing populist party named "Security and Responsibility" founds an [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Orwellian]] Ministry of Productivity that categorifies all foreigners into productive and unproductive. Being TheSlacker, the Kangaroo is a target for that mechanism and labelled unproductive. The different public administrations that the Kangaroo encounters are all overly bureaucratic, unfriendly, unhelpful, and in one chapter, straight-up inspired by Creator/FranzKafka's infamous ''Film/TheTrial''. In the last chapter, [[spoiler:the Kangaroo is officially deported, but returns secretly in the next book]].
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* ''[[Creator/MarcUweKling Das Känguru-Manifest]]'' ("The Kangaroo Manifesto"): A right-wing populist party named "Security and Responsibility" founded an [[Literature/{{Nineteeneightyfour}} Orwellian]] Ministry of Productivity that categorifies all foreigners into productive and unproductive. Being TheSlacker, the Kangaroo is a target for that mechanism and labelled unproductive. The different public administrations the Kangaroo encounters are all overly bureaucratic, unfriendly, unhelpful, and in one chapter, straight inspired by [[Literature/TheTrial Franz Kafka's infamous The Trial.]] In the last chapter, [[spoiler:The Kangaroo is officially deported, but returns secretly in the next book.]]