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Jiang says he was detained in northeastern China in 2002 while filming worker protests, signed a confession that he was working illegally as a reporter, and was deported without being charged with a crime.
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Deportation
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...spying. You were deported from China. Reporters Without Borders protested your deportation at the time. How did you get back into China? And why..."
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Jiang notes that deportation totals under Trump are still lower than under Obama and uses that comparison to question whether ICE is really about immigration enforcement rather than institutional power-building.
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"...spying. You were deported from China. Reporters Without Borders protested your deportation at the time. How did you get back into China? And why..."
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"Right. So when I started out as a young journalist, I was subcontracted by PBS to do a documentary on China's WTO entry. And..."
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"...these ICE raids are about, right? Because you should look at deportation numbers. Right? So the absolute number of deportation under Trump is still..."
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