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Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2025
What the administration is doing, especially with ICE raids in schools, with flying - repatriating people who often aren't only criminals, in military airplanes, for intimidation, talking about housing people on Guantanamo, that's intimidation.
—CBS News, 2 Mar. 2025
Chinese state news agency Xinhua said that 40 Chinese nationals who had illegally crossed the border into Thailand were deported and repatriated to China on Thursday.
—Kocha Olarn, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025
On Monday, the Florida Sheriffs’ Association said that all of Florida’s 67 county jails had signed what are known as 287(g) agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security agency tasked with detaining and repatriating immigrants with deportation orders.
—Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
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Her husband went to the Colombian Embassy in Mexico City in late January to ask about the possibility of being repatriated there.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2025
What the administration is doing, especially with ICE raids in schools, with flying - repatriating people who often aren't only criminals, in military airplanes, for intimidation, talking about housing people on Guantanamo, that's intimidation.
—CBS News, 2 Mar. 2025
Chinese state news agency Xinhua said that 40 Chinese nationals who had illegally crossed the border into Thailand were deported and repatriated to China on Thursday.
—Kocha Olarn, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025
On Monday, the Florida Sheriffs’ Association said that all of Florida’s 67 county jails had signed what are known as 287(g) agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security agency tasked with detaining and repatriating immigrants with deportation orders.
—Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
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Noun
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For expatriates and multinational business owners, staying informed and proactive in tax planning will be crucial.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Rodrigo Montes de Oca, a research scholar at the Center for the U.S. and Mexico, said this two-step process has been the case since the government first allowed expatriates to vote in 2006. Voters have increasingly met these requirements.—
Emiliano Tahui Gómez,
Austin American-Statesman,
5 June 2024
Verb
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In 2024, the Montgomery County received about $12 million from the sale of renewable energy credits, according to the bill’s fiscal note.—
Christine Condon,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Mar. 2025
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On Monday, the Sixers announced that George recently received injections in both his left adductor muscle and left knee, so his season is now over after 41 games.—
Bryan Toporek,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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Other immigration plans, including the detention of deportees at Guantanamo Bay and stopping the country's refugee resettlement program, have also been challenged in court.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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Catch up quick: In January, a Trump administration executive order froze federal funding for refugee resettlement.—
Andrew King,
Axios,
11 Mar. 2025
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But immigration law experts have said that the number of people who might lie on forms is very small compared to the millions of people who are naturalized or receive green cards each year.—
Adrian Florido,
NPR,
10 Mar. 2025
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Originally from mainland China, the partners are now naturalized Singapore citizens.—
Jonathan Burgos,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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More than a month after announcing the transfer of migrants to Guantanamo and the creation of spaces to house some 30,000 deportees, the Trump administration has suspended construction of tents at the base.—
Osmary Hernández and Manuel Cobela,
CNN,
12 Mar. 2025
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But during a visit from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the country agreed to serve as a bridge for deportees, with the U.S. funding the operation.—
Kimmy Yam,
NBC News,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Medium-distance migrants: These are birds that migrate a few hundred miles.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
11 Mar. 2025
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Omagh and other migrants who spoke to the AP detailed scarce food, sweltering heat with little relief and aggressive Panamanian authorities.—
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10 Mar. 2025
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That changed when waves of Irish immigrants arrived in the U.S. in the 19th century, settling in cities like New York and Boston.—
Stephanie Gravalese,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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The White House is trying to have it every way possible in a high-stakes dispute over its speedy deportation of hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
17 Mar. 2025
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The emigrants killed were traveling by wagon to California at the time.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Jan. 2025
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In the massacre, settlers of the LDS Church involved in a territorial militia killed 120 American western emigrants.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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