How to Use deportable in a Sentence

deportable

adjective

• There's a ton of different crimes that can make somebody deportable.
  — refinery29.com, 25 June 2018
• The system seems to be tailored more on deciding whether an asylum seeker is deportable from the US or not.
  — Amindeh Blaise Atabong, Quartz Africa, 11 Nov. 2020
• On Monday the Supreme Court will consider if immigrants whom Congress has deemed deportable can seek sanctuary in the courts.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2020
• This is the last-ditch claim deportable aliens, especially criminals, will try to make to prolong their case and avoid deportation.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 11 June 2020
• Federal law deems any crime involving a firearm a deportable offense.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Aug. 2021
• Chea was deported to Cambodia in August 2018 based on non-deportable offenses, Li said.
  — NBC News, 29 Feb. 2020
• The process is an adversarial one, with a goal of determining whether the person is deportable from the United States, not whether that person merits protection.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2020
• The government is happy to have our unpunctual but deportable bodies.
  — Héctor Tobar, Slate Magazine, 24 Jan. 2017
• At least 33% of people identified as deportable had minor children who were U.S. citizens.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2021
• These requests are not signed by judges, but by ICE officials who identify non-citizens in local custody who the agency suspects are deportable.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2020
• Yost says that the new policy will stop ICE from transferring most deportable migrants from local prisons to its custody when they are set to be released from jail, even though federal law requires it.
  — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2021
• Refusing to download the app is another deportable offense.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 31 July 2020
• The new charge carries a possible six-year prison sentence and still qualifies as a deportable crime if jurors opt to convict him of negligent discharge as opposed to the more serious assault count.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2022
• Assault, too, is not a deportable offense, although domestic violence is, Saenz-Rodriguez said.
  — Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2020
• The cruelty on display is absurd, as when a prison official brags about the boost in federal funding for detention centers and the growing list of deportable offenses being a boon for business.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 25 July 2019
• After all, being in the country without proper authorization would remain a civil--and therefore a deportable--offense.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 6 July 2019
• Local officials are authorized to double as federal agents and issue a hold on immigrants who might be deportable, also called a detainer, on behalf of ICE.
  — Amanda Sakuma, The Intercept, 8 May 2017
• Many lives have been taken at the hands of aliens who had no right to be in this country: During the Obama administration, 121 deportable aliens were detained, released, and subsequently convicted of hundreds of murders that could have been avoided.
  — Sapna Rampersaud, National Review, 26 July 2017
• Certain kinds of assault convictions have led to removals, and new immigration policies under President Donald Trump have expanded the scope of deportable crimes.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• When deportable immigrants are arrested, some go into mandatory detention but some must be released.
  — Tal Kopan, CNN, 6 Apr. 2018
• Though a federal conviction for simple marijuana possession is a deportable offense, the pardon this week from President Joe Biden is not likely to help many immigrants with their court cases.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
• He was sentenced to 127 months behind bars on federal charges and was rendered automatically deportable under immigration law because of his crimes.
  — Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 6 Apr. 2021
• California has enacted various laws since 2013 that have chipped away at the power of the federal government to mandate local cooperation in handing over those who ICE deems deportable.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
• California has enacted various laws since 2013 that have chipped away at the power of the federal government to mandate local cooperation in handing over those whom ICE deems deportable.
  — Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Aug. 2021
• His removal illustrates the increasingly hard line the Trump administration is taking with legal immigrants that are deportable because of criminal records.
  — Peter Prengaman, Fox News, 5 June 2019
• But the Executive branch also can’t possibly be expected, or have the resources, to deport every deportable person in sight, and so officials over the years have cited prosecutorial discretion to exercise mercy on a case-by-case basis.
  — Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Aug. 2017
• All of the convictions listed qualified as deportable offenses under the Obama administration.
  — Liz Robbins, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2017
• Unlike most criminal justice policy, though, immigration policy is set by the federal government; the only choices local officials can make are how easy to make the jobs of ICE agents in identifying and apprehending deportable immigrants.
  — Dara Lind, Vox, 10 May 2018
• Republican senators introduced legislation to narrow the scope of this ruling in 2014, complaining that the Barack Obama administration was relying on it as a basis for releasing deportable immigrants.
  — Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2018
• Typically, migrants apprehended by the Border Patrol who express a fear of returning to their home country or are not immediately deportable are processed and released locally — generally with a promise to later appear in immigration court.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024