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[jimbobobby]

Hey guys and girl! In every single fortress I have the migrants just roll in like cougars, I do not like these strangers. In fact, I'd rather just have all my fortress related. For future generations if everyone is related, maybe I'll let one migrant in but for now I just can't handle migrants. Right now I've only had my first migrant wave in my new fort, 2 children, a trader and a glass maker. I could make them all useful as engravers but that's foolish. Anyways, I need help dealing with these spies.
So far I have this list to get rid of them:
1. Drowning room
2. Cave-in
3. Cage the cougar and throw the kids in the cougar pit (I think the cougar left)
4. Military draft
5. Box
I've just looked at one of the kid's relationship thingy and she has a lot of cousins, a deity named Datan and no friends so removing them isn't going to cause a problem. Anybody with a more Armok-friendly solution please feel free to share!

[Necrisha]

military draft in seprate area/fortress on surface/caverns with no uniform (uniform replaces clothing) If they survive wrestling whatever you choose to sick the adults on bonus. kids have warren in the training area. bonus points if danger room involved.

[blaster339]

A burrow for the migrants that works like a waiting room
But if you really wanna kill them so badly just do a cave-in or drowning room

Interrogative:
Why do you want to get rid of them so badly?
Migrants are awesome especially if they're vampires, vampires prove to be very useful too

[Deadswifi]

I just had an idea. Why not have a green-card-like system that would make it pretty much so that instead of migrants just arriving straight to your fortress, they would sign up for a "green card" where you could view their details and (if you wish to) accept them.
This would make for a really, really good mod. Anyone with me?

[Fluoman]

No. But an additional menu where we state wether we want more migrants or not each time the outpost liaison comes would be better.

[Deadswifi]

No. But an additional menu where we state wether we want more migrants or not each time the outpost liaison comes would be better.

Or that, at least.

[jimbobobby]

A burrow for the migrants that works like a waiting room
But if you really wanna kill them so badly just do a cave-in or drowning room

Interrogative:
Why do you want to get rid of them so badly?
Migrants are awesome especially if they're vampires, vampires prove to be very useful too

I'm 92.6% sure none of them are currently vampires though one of the migrants and my engraver were in a bedroom for a while, not sure if there's an affair or blood sucking going on. If I do come across a vampire I'll definitely send it to "clean" the water sources. The reason for my hate is because they just flood my fortresses when I'm least prepared, they're like the friendliest invaders ever. It isn't right! I don't want Allied Invasion Dorf Squads, I want Kamikaze Insane Dorf Squads.

[ikachan]

If you destroy them with an atom smasher then they will be listed as missing because they can't find the body. If they're listed as missing then no-one gets an unhappy thought but you will have to engrave some slabs to avoid ghosts.

[Fluoman]

I'm 92.6% sure none of them are currently vampires

That's awfully precise. Did you run a survey?

[BoredVirulence]

Its things like this that make me consider a multi-tiered fortress.

Currently I have different castes in my fortresses, and higher castes get better treatment, but otherwise they all live in the same fortress, in fact the peasants get treated better than they should because they get a well defended home, a legendary dining room, excellent food and booze, and a 3x3 home complete with a bed, cabinet, and chest.

So I consider having a large, unskilled fortress as my entrance. A few traps and a lockable door protect them from goblins, that and the little training they do. Then deeper underground is the real fortress, with the citizens I care about, better protected, etc. Dwarves can only transfer if they prove themselves. That way you get the benefit of migrants, more dwarves if you need them, and you mitigate the negatives, you aren't really forced to provide for them, because they don't compromise the good fortress.

Why kill them when you can segregate them and take advantage of them!

[Supersheepman]

What you need, my friend, is the Automagic MigrantSmasher^TM. It's a little "immigration facility" designated as a burrow. Herd in migrants, lock the door, pull the lever and forget your troubles.

I use it to regulate immigration to a manageable level.

[Urist McRas]

You can also change population cap, but it is not nearly as dwarfy...

[Suspense]

You can also change population cap, but it is not nearly as dwarfy...

And also not nearly as precise.

[moki]

I usually like migrants... they add some challenge in otherwise peaceful biomes. Only in my last fort I had a bit of bad luck. Third or Fourth wave had 70 migrants, most of them fish cleaners or children. I really don't know what I would have done if my undead friends didn't kill everybody a few months later 

The easiest way to get rid of them (if you only want to keep the useful ones) is putting all the useless ones into a burrow under a drawbridge and pulling the lever. You'll have to keep some slabs ready, but it's still the cleanest solution. In previous versions without burrows I always ordered all my dwarves inside and closed the entrance until those soapmakers died outside.

[Cheedows]

Suicide squads of wrestlers.  Those that live will probaly get TONS of experience, then you can draft them into the military that you actually care about.  Or maybe have a squad of Legendary Wrestlers in Iron armor.  And do what the others said, segregate and make them self-sufficient with bad food and bad booze.