as in refugee
a person forced to emigrate for political reasons the deportee vowed that he would someday return to a liberated nation

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Recent Examples of deportee Trump defiantly hosted El Salvador's president in the White House this week just as criticism is surging about sending deportees to the Central American country. Zac Anderson, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025 Mexico, therefore, accepted fewer deportees from the U.S. from the start of Trump’s second term compared to the same time period last year under former President Joe Biden’s administration. Danielle Wallace , Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 30 Apr. 2025 Tensions reached a boiling point when Trump imposed a 50% tariff on Colombian exports after President Gustavo Petro refused to comply with U.S. demands to take deportees. Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2025 Trump ignored a court order that planes carrying deportees should not leave the country. Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for deportee
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refugee
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  • The March, and the Madrid Accords agreement between Spain, Morocco and Mauretania that followed, signified regime change and the forceful displacement of majority of Sahrawis, many of whom now live in refugee camps in Algeria.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025
  • The processing of Afrikaners granted refugee status has also been unusually fast.
    May 9, CBS News, 9 May 2025

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“Deportee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deportee. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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