internee
Example Sentences
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He was transferred from an Immigration and Naturalization Service facility in Montana to the center for enemy alien internees in Louisiana.
From Los Angeles Times
Detained as they had been, the internees, Goodman found, had scarcely been enjoying the benefits of a “free society.”
From Washington Post
"There is an onus on the British government to identify and inform other internees whose internment may also have been unlawful," he said.
From BBC
The converted liner was being used to transport internees - and some German prisoners of war - to Canada when it was sunk by a torpedo from a U-boat off the Irish coast.
From BBC
After the war, and a long period of lobbying, Congress passed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, signed by President Ronald Reagan, which granted each surviving internee $20,000 in reparations.
From Seattle Times
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