How to Use deportation in a Sentence

deportation

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  • Within a month the Nazis started deportations to death camps and took away our rabbi.
    — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • The United States levied sanctions against Russians linked to the forcible deportation of Ukraine’s children.
    — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Medea faces deportation; her children will stay with Jason and Creuse.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • In May, the number of Georgia migrants with new deportation cases was 4,963.
    — Lautaro Grinspan, ajc, 3 July 2023
  • 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
  • For foreigners, the new law threatens exit and entry bans, as well as deportation.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 30 June 2023
  • Moscow has defended the practice as saving them while denying that the deportations are forced.
    — Richard Roth, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
  • And what about the new legislation enacted by Texas that would give the state power to arrest migrants and to enact mass deportations?
    — Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Republicans are using the war between Israel and Palestine as fodder to push for a new wave of deportations at home.
    — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Details on the deportation plan announced last month have been limited.
    — David Shortell, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
  • On Friday, Aguilar Mendez's charges were dropped, but the teen remains in federal custody in Florida and faces deportation.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 2 Mar. 2024
  • In March, the court accused him of war crimes, specifically the forceful deportation of hundreds of Ukrainian children.
    — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Of the total, 34 migrants faced deportation at least in part because they were accused or convicted of a criminal act.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
  • For the family of Mr. Gul, the garbage scavenger in Karachi, one lesson from his deportation was the futility of fighting the authorities.
    — Zia Ur-Rehman, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
  • But in 2022, the Biden administration launched an initiative that provides a pathway back to the U.S. and halts future deportations.
    — Deborah Kim, ABC News, 13 July 2023
  • In addition to never asking for money, no one from the FTC will be threatening arrest or deportation over the phone or a messaging app.
    — María Soledad Davila Calero, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Their agents had to operate the deportation flights, and some of the migrants were physically resisting being taken to Haiti.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
  • One app generally can stay for one to two years and are eligible to work but may face deportation proceedings.
    — Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The state of immigration detention underscores the stakes for those who could face deportation if DACA ends.
    — Armando Garcia, ABC News, 15 June 2023
  • Talbot also worries that the White House is weighing raising the legal bar migrants have to clear in their first interview with a border agent to avoid being fast-tracked for deportation.
    — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Led the Protest in Irving to end the massive deportation of Immigrants for minor traffic offenses in Irving.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • And when she's done serving her time in America, Viktoria faces deportation and murder charges back in Russia.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 3 June 2023
  • The secretary went on to explain the deportation process before Johnson grew frustrated and moved onto more questions.
    — Quinn Owen, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • However, due to her absence, a judge ordered her deportation.
    — The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The public might have moved on from its outrage over the family separation process, Weiss said, but many of the families are still facing deportation proceedings.
    — Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 26 June 2023
  • Because the system is so backlogged, migrants can cross the border illegally, claim a fear of persecution, and live and work legally in the United States for years with little fear of deportation.
    — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • One process are placed in deportation proceedings in addition to being paroled, the officials noted.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 18 July 2023

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