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deportation

[dee-pawr-tey-shuhn, -pohr-] / ˌdi pɔrˈteɪ ʃən, -poʊr- /


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Doe External link, upheld the administration’s authority to end deportation protection for Haitians and Syrians.

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

But those alternatives are often narrower than the TPS program, so eliminating TPS will make many of its beneficiaries subject to imminent deportation, experts say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

"The deportation machine has kind of turned more surgical, so to speak. There's less activity in the cities where there's a lot more prying eyes," Budiandri said.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

In the best-case scenario, he may “parole” you into the country as an “arriving alien”—forcing you into a legal limbo that makes you far more vulnerable to deportation and could stretch on indefinitely.

From Slate • Jun. 23, 2026

When Bert Lewyn, the Jewish teenager forced to work in a Berlin munitions factory, discovered that he was also marked for deportation to a concentration camp, he went into hiding.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti




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