banished

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Banished from the U.S., undocumented in Mexico and unable to go home, deportees are stuck in “a quasi-stateless limbo,” according to a recent report by the advocacy group Refugees International.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

Banished to the orchestra’s back row, the tuba is rarely highlighted on its own.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

“Due to the safety of the Oyate, effective immediately, you are hereby Banished from the homelands of the Oglala Sioux Tribe!”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2024

His fall from grace was later chronicled on the Peacock network documentary "Banished."

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2022

Headlines like “Untouchability Banished in India: Worshipped in America,” which appeared in a Bombay newspaper in 1951, mortified the US diplomatic corps.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly