A couple protesting in NYC in, circa 1940.

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Spartan2470 on December 16th, 2021 at 16:40 UTC »

Here is the source of this image. Per there:

Otto Richter, a German Jew, and his wife protest against his deportation to Germany by the US immigration authorities, Ellis. he was unable to produce valid immigration papers,

Date taken: 11 June 1936

Location: ELLIS ISLAND, , USA

Photographer: Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo

According to here:

June 2, 1936

The Department of Labor rejected yesterday the petition of Otto Richter, 21-year-old German citizen, to go to Canada to obtain legal reentry into the United States, and ordered him to report to Ellis Island for deportation on June 23. He will be sent to Germany on the President Harding on June 24, it was said at the office of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, 100 Fifth Avenue, which has handled the case...

And he was later deported, but not to Germany:

In July, 1934, during the San Francisco general strike, a vigilante raid was made on the Workers Center, and there Otto Richter was found engaged in what the Department of Labor evidently regarded as the heinous offense of helping to feed striking marine workers. He was seized and ordered deported to Nazi Germany on the technical charge that he had remained in the United States illegally. Since that time a long legal battle has been fought by the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born to save him from deportation. And only the tremendous counterpressure of mass sentiment has secured for Otto Richter the dubious privilege of being deported to a country of his choice -— Belgium -— instead of to Hitler’s sadistocracy.

s_y_s_t_e_m_i_c_ on December 16th, 2021 at 17:46 UTC »

Does anyone know what happened to him?

The NYT reported that he was ultimately deported, but I've read that he was offered passage to Mexico - only to be deported to Belgium instead. The Nazis invaded Belgium in 1940.

THEDrunkPossum on December 16th, 2021 at 19:29 UTC »

How you gonna watermark an image that is clearly not yours??