deport
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Federal authorities will seek to deport Manuel Ernesto Hernandez-Umana, claiming he lied to cross the southern border in 2017.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Sánchez has accused migrant traffickers of exploiting a decision recently made by the country's supreme court which constrained the government's right to immediately deport people who had arrived by sea.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
The Justice Department has filed a first-ever petition to a secretive and dormant court created 30 years ago to weigh government requests to deport so-called ‘alien terrorists’ from the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
"It's logistically relatively easy for ICE to deport them to a third country," she added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
“Extradite and deport both mean ‘send back,’ by the way.”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Apparently, the administration is casting a very wide net as it detains and deports people.
From Salon ● May 25, 2025
Ammunition deports and chemical plants were hit across several regions, some of which were hundreds of kilometres from the border, according to the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2025
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has abruptly withdrawn from consideration after months of uncertainty, leaving the Homeland Security agency that detains and deports undocumented immigrants without a confirmed director for the sixth consecutive year.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2022
Australia deports foreigners convicted of crimes as part of an immigration crackdown that can also strip dual-nationals of Australian citizenship.
From Reuters ● Jun. 10, 2022
December 21: The United States deports 249 people that it has accused of being anarchists.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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The Maryland man deported last year by mistake already had his federal indictment on human smuggling charges dismissed over vindictive prosecution, but now, the Justice Department is demanding the indictment be brought back.
From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2026
US President Donald Trump's administration has deported dozens of people to what are termed "third countries" since coming into power in January 2025.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
One of those was Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez, a Sacramento mother who was deported a day after her green card interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
After the islands were occupied in 1945, Moscow deported their Japanese population of about 17,000 people.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
If there was anything that terrified us as much as getting deported, it was that the principal's office would discover our address scam and send us down the road to the rough-and-tumble streets of Cupertino.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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Undocumented residents don’t enjoy the same legal rights as citizens, and deporting someone is a much lower lift, legally speaking, than prosecuting someone for a crime they didn’t commit.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
The government’s lawyers say immigration laws call for deporting non-citizens with “aggravated felonies” on their records.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Equatorial Guinea has then held them without charge before deporting them to their countries of origin.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
It prevented ICE from deporting Rivera Ortega to her home country due to concerns she could face harm.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
These buses make as many as eight runs a day, deporting more than 100,000 unhappy passengers every year.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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