How to Use deportation in a Sentence

deportation

noun
  • The mass murder, the mass rape, the mass deportation, and so on?
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Sep. 2022
  • And yet, hundreds of migrants say they were told to stay put in them, or risk deportation.
    Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 24 June 2024
  • In that case, the person would be subject to deportation.
    Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 10 May 2024
  • Within a month the Nazis started deportations to death camps and took away our rabbi.
    Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The lawsuit alleges that the company used threats of deportation to keep the workers from leaving the bunkhouse.
    Kevin McGill, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The satire of current events had Clown-in-Chief Klump holding a press conference to announce the deportation of all dogs.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2024
  • But then, near the end of the book, her grandfather receives a deportation order.
    Nicolás Medina Mora, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The United States levied sanctions against Russians linked to the forcible deportation of Ukraine’s children.
    Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The Canadian rapper was convicted of three felony charges and faces up to 22 years in prison and deportation.
    Ashley Boucher and Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2022
  • One set of advisers saw mass deportation as the only option; the other balked at the human cost.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Yet Harris has not pledged mass deportations or a crackdown anything like what Trump has called for.
    Elisabeth Buchwald and Matt Egan, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024
  • His goal is to get a green card, which would relieve him of the fear of eventual deportation and give him the time to return to his former profession.
    Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Fear of deportation kept this worker at Stash’s for almost 14 years.
    Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
  • As Science has reported, the spat led to the deportation of David Gaveau, a French landscape ecologist who worked with the agency.
    Bydyna Rochmyaningsih, science.org, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Medea faces deportation; her children will stay with Jason and Creuse.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • But Miller had also spent time brainstorming how to carry out the mass deportation that hadn’t happened in Trump’s first term.
    Andrew Prokop, Vox, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The rest of the family was loaded onto a deportation train and understood that they were being sent to Auschwitz.
    Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2022
  • In May, the number of Georgia migrants with new deportation cases was 4,963.
    Lautaro Grinspan, ajc, 3 July 2023
  • In the days before her deportation to Auschwitz, Kashtichker hid her family's documents and photos in the urn and buried it.
    Becky Perlow, ABC News, 8 July 2024
  • But many Latinos have been turned off by Trump's heated rhetoric about immigrants and his plan for mass deportations.
    Russell Contreras, Axios, 11 Aug. 2024
  • The threat of deportation for those who battle their farm bosses is real and pervasive.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The number of migrants arriving in the U.S. is still high, and the Biden administration has ramped up deportations.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 28 July 2023
  • For foreigners, the new law threatens exit and entry bans, as well as deportation.
    Mary Hui, Quartz, 30 June 2023
  • In Kenya, many moderators who have lost their jobs now face deportation.
    WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Moscow has defended the practice as saving them while denying that the deportations are forced.
    Richard Roth, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
  • And what about the new legislation enacted by Texas that would give the state power to arrest migrants and to enact mass deportations?
    Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Republicans are using the war between Israel and Palestine as fodder to push for a new wave of deportations at home.
    Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Officials sent dozens of Haitians back to their home country, in the first deportation flight conducted by the U.S. government in months to Haiti, which has been gripped by violence.
    Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 2 June 2024
  • And mass deportation for undocumented people is pretty much all there is to his immigration policy, which takes away labor supply, Ryan said.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Mass deportations Trump is making his plans for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants a central feature of his potential second term.
    Brian Bennett, TIME, 3 Nov. 2024

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