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Recent Examples of extradition
Contreras is being held at the Jefferson County Jail on a $1 million cash bond, while Ramirez was awaiting extradition to Colorado as of Friday morning.
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Max Levy, The Denver Post, 17 Jan. 2025
New Justice Department leaders transferred lawyers with decades of experience handling civil rights, extraditions, counterterrorism and cybercrime into a new office that covers immigration enforcement.
—Carrie Johnson, NPR, 31 Jan. 2025
On Friday, just over a year after the children's deaths, a U.K. judge in London rejected her challenge against extradition.
—Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
Current Colombian president Gustavo Petro dropped the extradition request and asked former president Biden to remove Cuba from the terror-sponsor list.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
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Max Levy, The Denver Post, 17 Jan. 2025
New Justice Department leaders transferred lawyers with decades of experience handling civil rights, extraditions, counterterrorism and cybercrime into a new office that covers immigration enforcement.
—Carrie Johnson, NPR, 31 Jan. 2025
On Friday, just over a year after the children's deaths, a U.K. judge in London rejected her challenge against extradition.
—Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
Current Colombian president Gustavo Petro dropped the extradition request and asked former president Biden to remove Cuba from the terror-sponsor list.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extradition
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He was supposed to be deported to Bulgaria last year but reportedly avoided deportation.—
Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
arkansasonline.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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Trump successfully campaigned on a platform of mass deportation and strengthening border security.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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The expulsions of the Barnard students were disclosed Saturday by Columbia University Apartheid Divest.—
Emma Tucker,
CNN,
27 Feb. 2025
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In the summer of 1972, the country's leader, Idi Amin, ordered the mass expulsion of Asians, giving Kishor 90 days to leave Uganda.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
27 Feb. 2025
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More than 40,000 Palestinians have been displaced from those areas, according to the United Nations and Israel's defense minister — the largest displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank in decades.—
Kat Lonsdorf,
NPR,
23 Feb. 2025
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The Israeli military operation across several West Bank cities has displaced roughly 40,000 Palestinians from their homes, in what experts say is the biggest displacement of civilians in the territory since the Arab-Israeli war of 1967.—
Isabel Kershner,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
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“Extradition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extradition. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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