deportee
Example Sentences
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Under a deal with Washington in August, Uganda agreed to take in U.S. deportees who believe it unsafe to return to their countries of origin.
Some deportees were flown to an El Salvador prison.
From Los Angeles Times
Accra recently accepted dozens of deportees from the United States -- exclusively West Africans -- on what the government described as humanitarian grounds, despite domestic criticism over the arrangement.
From Barron's
When US officials forced him to board a plane carrying more than 150 deportees heading to Managua, Nicaragua, he remembers being the only non–Latin American on the plane.
From BBC
Yet there are countries like Cuba and China that refuse to take deportees back, and other nations may cease to accept deportees depending on the state of relations with the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
