deportee
noun
de·por·tee
ˌdē-ˌpȯr-ˈtē 
di-
: one who has been deported or is under sentence of deportation
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Examples of deportee in a Sentence
the deportee vowed that he would someday return to a liberated nation
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Dozens of Haitians expelled from the United States arrived back in Haiti on Thursday in the Department of Homeland Security’s first deportation flight since an ongoing gang insurgency forced the Biden administration to halt a flight with deportees and order the evacuation of Americans.
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
Still, Mexico has cooperated with U.S. demands for more crackdowns on migrant flows and human trafficking networks, and agreed last year to receive deportees from four countries — Nicaragua, Haiti, Venezuela and Cuba.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
With a reputation for high murder rates and disappearances in the early 2000s, the city wasn’t somewhere migrants or deportees eyed – or lingered.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2024
Many deportees could also suffer gross rights violations by the Taliban regime, including arbitrary arrest, detention, and torture.
—Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2024
Rwanda’s government says the country is ready to receive migrants from Britain, and has plans to build more than 1,000 houses, including recreational facilities, for the deportees.
—Jill Lawless, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2023
Venezuelan authorities barred reporters from speaking with deportees after the flight landed.
—Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
Ukrainians can receive payments of about $130, but deportees say there is little support beyond that.
—USA Today, 31 May 2023
Then, the islands became a refuge for Acadian deportees.
—Hillary Richards, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023
Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
Still, Mexico has cooperated with U.S. demands for more crackdowns on migrant flows and human trafficking networks, and agreed last year to receive deportees from four countries — Nicaragua, Haiti, Venezuela and Cuba.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
With a reputation for high murder rates and disappearances in the early 2000s, the city wasn’t somewhere migrants or deportees eyed – or lingered.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2024
Many deportees could also suffer gross rights violations by the Taliban regime, including arbitrary arrest, detention, and torture.
—Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2024
Rwanda’s government says the country is ready to receive migrants from Britain, and has plans to build more than 1,000 houses, including recreational facilities, for the deportees.
—Jill Lawless, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2023
Venezuelan authorities barred reporters from speaking with deportees after the flight landed.
—Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
Ukrainians can receive payments of about $130, but deportees say there is little support beyond that.
—USA Today, 31 May 2023
Then, the islands became a refuge for Acadian deportees.
—Hillary Richards, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023
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deportee
noun
de·por·tee
ˌdē-ˌpōr-ˈtē
: a person who has been deported or is under an order of deportation
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