How to Use deportation in a Sentence

deportation

noun
  • But the first Rwanda deportation flight did not take off as planned.
    Tazreena Sajjad, The Conversation, 28 July 2022
  • The legal standard, which requires the immigrant to show hardship above and beyond the typical difficulties caused by deportation, is hard to meet.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2022
  • Those who do not meet the criteria or otherwise considered undesirable citizens should then be processed for deportation.
    Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Many were later handed over to federal authorities for deportation or expulsion.
    Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 8 July 2022
  • Miller works as deportation officer at a DHS office in Minnesota.
    Fox News, 7 July 2022
  • Old marijuana charges lurk like ticking timebombs for non-citizens, who potentially face deportation for previous charges, even if those offenses are decades-old.
    Essence, 21 July 2022
  • The mass murder, the mass rape, the mass deportation, and so on?
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Sep. 2022
  • And yet, hundreds of migrants say they were told to stay put in them, or risk deportation.
    Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 24 June 2024
  • In that case, the person would be subject to deportation.
    Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 10 May 2024
  • Within a month the Nazis started deportations to death camps and took away our rabbi.
    Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The lawsuit alleges that the company used threats of deportation to keep the workers from leaving the bunkhouse.
    Kevin McGill, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The satire of current events had Clown-in-Chief Klump holding a press conference to announce the deportation of all dogs.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2024
  • But then, near the end of the book, her grandfather receives a deportation order.
    Nicolás Medina Mora, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The United States levied sanctions against Russians linked to the forcible deportation of Ukraine’s children.
    Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The Canadian rapper was convicted of three felony charges and faces up to 22 years in prison and deportation.
    Ashley Boucher and Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2022
  • One set of advisers saw mass deportation as the only option; the other balked at the human cost.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Yet Harris has not pledged mass deportations or a crackdown anything like what Trump has called for.
    Elisabeth Buchwald and Matt Egan, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024
  • His goal is to get a green card, which would relieve him of the fear of eventual deportation and give him the time to return to his former profession.
    Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Fear of deportation kept this worker at Stash’s for almost 14 years.
    Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
  • As Science has reported, the spat led to the deportation of David Gaveau, a French landscape ecologist who worked with the agency.
    Bydyna Rochmyaningsih, science.org, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Medea faces deportation; her children will stay with Jason and Creuse.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • But Miller had also spent time brainstorming how to carry out the mass deportation that hadn’t happened in Trump’s first term.
    Andrew Prokop, Vox, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The rest of the family was loaded onto a deportation train and understood that they were being sent to Auschwitz.
    Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2022
  • In May, the number of Georgia migrants with new deportation cases was 4,963.
    Lautaro Grinspan, ajc, 3 July 2023
  • In the days before her deportation to Auschwitz, Kashtichker hid her family's documents and photos in the urn and buried it.
    Becky Perlow, ABC News, 8 July 2024
  • But many Latinos have been turned off by Trump's heated rhetoric about immigrants and his plan for mass deportations.
    Russell Contreras, Axios, 11 Aug. 2024
  • The threat of deportation for those who battle their farm bosses is real and pervasive.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The number of migrants arriving in the U.S. is still high, and the Biden administration has ramped up deportations.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 28 July 2023
  • Trump ran on a campaign that promised the largest deportation operations in our nation’s history.
    ProPublica, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Farmworkers and their advocates, though, are anxious, about both deportations and an expansion of guest worker programs that previously have resulted in complaints about shorted paychecks, unpaid travel time and unsafe housing.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024

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