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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

Still unclear is whether Colombian authorities have agreed to accept the return of more Venezuelan deportees who do not qualify for U.S. asylum under the Biden administration’s tighter rules.

From Washington Post