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Recent Examples of deportation This year has been nothing short of horrific for our country’s Latine population, thanks to the current administration’s anti-immigration legislation and numerous, often-violent ICE raids, resulting in mass deportations and detainment (sometimes among legal residents and citizens). Sofía Viera, Allure, 10 Oct. 2025 In recent years, wars in Gaza and Ukraine, setbacks to women's reproductive health and LGBTQ rights, mass deportations, DEI rollbacks and school shootings have dominated headlines. Pamela Avila, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025 But now the idea is to use deportation operations to deter people from even trying to cross. Julia Ainsley, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025 After his release, Fernandez-Cruz will be taken into ICE custody to begin deportation proceedings. Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for deportation
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expulsion
Noun
  • Advertisement For that reason, collegiate sanctions for mild acts of civil disobedience may sometimes be relatively light—probation or a formal warning, for example, rather than suspension or expulsion.
    Christopher L. Eisgruber, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Neogy left not during Amin’s Asian expulsion but earlier, after running afoul of the preceding regime, President Milton Obote’s.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025

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“Deportation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deportation. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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