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... the state... smuggled its expelled stateless into the neighboring countries, with the result that the latter retaliated in kind. The ideal solution of repatriation, to smuggle the refugee back into his country of origin, succeeded only in a few prominent instances, partly because a non-totalitarian police was still restrained by a few rudimentary ethical considerations, partly because the stateless person was as likely to be smuggled back from his home country as from any other, and last but not least because the whole traffic could go on only with neighboring countries.
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Lawrence Preuss, op. cit., describes the spread of illegality as follows: "The initial illegal act of the denationalizing government . . . puts the expelling country in the position of an offender of international law, because its authorities violate the law of the country to which the stateless person is expelled. The latter country, in turn, cannot get rid of him ... except by violating ... the law of a third country .... [The stateless person finds himself before the following alternative]: either he violates the law of the country where he resides ... or he violates the law of the country to which he is expelled."
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Childs, op. cit., after having come to the sad conclusion that "the real difficulty about receiving a refugee is that if he turns out badly ... there is no way of getting rid of him," proposed "transitional centers " to which the refugee could be returned even from abroad, which, in other words, should replace a homeland for deportation purposes.
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HannahArendt on the plight of #
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InternallyDisplaced must be a newer, after-1954 invention....
