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
• Supposedly, the deportees, many of whom were in their 60s or 70s, did not have sufficient documentation to prove their right to live in Britain.
  — Balaji Ravichandran, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
• The talks will focus on food security, nuclear safety and the release of all prisoners and deportees.
  — Fox News, 3 June 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024