How to Use deportee in a Sentence

deportee

noun
  • In South Korea, one deportee served a prison term for robbing a bank with a toy gun.
    Choe Sang-Hun, The Seattle Times, 7 July 2017
  • Poor and desperate deportee, looking to find some way—any way—to stay on the right side of the border.
    Paolo Bacigalupi, Wired News, 27 May 2015
  • The Support Group for Refugees and Returnees, meanwhile, is struggling to cope with the volume of deportees.
    Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Some of the deportees carried backpacks, and others seemed to have nothing at all.
    Tommy Trenchard, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Kum is among deportees waiting for his ID to be processed.
    NBC News, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Gang members make up a small fraction of the deportee total.
    Joshua Partlow, Washington Post, 24 May 2017
  • One by one the deportees marched, flanked on each side by the uniformed men, curses and threats accompanying the thud of their feet on the frozen ground.
    Adam Hochschild, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Cuba does not have to accept deportees from the United States.
    Kathleen McWilliams, courant.com, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Since then, the group has grown to about 60 as more recent deportees began adopting and supporting the project.
    Maria Santana, CNN, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Many deportees will look for ways to get back to the United States, joining the 250 Salvadoreans who leave the country every day.
    The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
  • The young deportee is a household name in the small community in El Salvador where he and his brother were born.
    Kervy Robles and Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2020
  • For many Honduran deportees, home means a return to the brutality that sent them fleeing north in the first place.
    Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
  • Germany canceled a plane that was to take deportees to Kabul on Wednesday.
    Associated Press, Washington Post, 1 June 2017
  • The border documents also can be used for a free bus ride from the border crossing to the deportee’s hometown.
    Stacy St. Clair, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2019
  • Tens of thousands of deportees were sent back to El Salvador, a country the size of Massachusetts.
    Sarah Garland, Time, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Even jobless deportees are still seen as coming from the more monied and privileged United States.
    CNN, 7 June 2018
  • The most recent deportee arrived in Cambodia in May, Herod added.
    Agnes Constante, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Waiting to greet Alvarez and other young deportees was Israel Concha, 38, who knows the feeling all too well.
    Oscar Lopez / Mexico City, Time, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Our progressive friends in the media will fill the airwaves with the tears and wailing of deportees, and we will be treated to no end of sympathetic stories.
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 17 Jan. 2018
  • But at the time, Cuba would not accept any additional people who had arrived on the Mariel boat lift as deportees.
    CBS News, 19 May 2017
  • But hours after the blast, the government in Berlin said that a flight carrying deportees bound for Afghanistan scheduled for Wednesday had been postponed.
    Mujib Mashal, Fahim Abed and Jawad Sukhanyar, New York Times, 31 May 2017
  • For the deportees, many of whom have children in Australia, the policy has been brutal, said Filipa Payne, the founder of the advocacy group Route 501.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Rodriguez is part of a group of fellow deportees that help migrants find housing in Tijuana.
    Gustavo Solis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan was the only Republican who opposed the deportee bill.
    Matthew Daly, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2017
  • Marimba music pipes through loudspeakers as deportees who've just arrived file through the door.
    CNN, 13 Oct. 2017
  • For these deportees, home is a neighborhood ruled by murderous gangs who extort money and demand that young men join their ranks — killing those who refuse to obey.
    Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
  • But the law also states the U.S. government must take into account the concerns of those nations and their ability to take back large number of deportees.
    chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2018
  • The idea was to let immigrants work and send money back to help relatives recover from the damage and not burden the countries with a large number of deportees.
    Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
  • With a reputation for high murder rates and disappearances in the early 2000s, the city wasn’t somewhere migrants or deportees eyed – or lingered.
    Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The talks will focus on food security, nuclear safety and the release of all prisoners and deportees.
    Fox News, 3 June 2024

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