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deportation

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


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Both invoked their human rights under article eight of the European Convention on Human Rights - the right to a private and family life - to avoid deportation.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2026

Authorities from Washington to Stockholm are pulling up the drawbridge to immigrants, wielding deportation orders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026

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

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

That move made Lau far more vulnerable to detention and deportation than if he had been admitted as an LPR.

From Slate • Jun. 23, 2026

Adolf Eichmann, the SS official responsible for the deportation of Jews to concentration camps, escaped to Argentina, but, fifteen years later, Israeli agents tracked him down, captured him, and flew him to Israel for trial.

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




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