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Advocates and families of some deportees have said they were falsely accused based on little evidence, and law enforcement officials and documents suggest Tren de Aragua is a relatively small and unsophisticated organization.
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Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 9 Jan. 2026
ProPublica and Verite News contacted the embassies and consulates for Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras and Vietnam to learn how those countries manage the repatriation of deportees whose U.S. prison sentences were cut short.
—ProPublica, 24 Nov. 2025
He was sent to Honduras, where immigration agents from Venezuela processed deportees from the U.S.
—Whitney Eulich, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Nov. 2025
The Herald spoke to six men in Mexico and lawyers for six other deportees who say the Department of Homeland Security drove them in buses to the southern border and handed them over to authorities in Mexico.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
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Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 9 Jan. 2026
ProPublica and Verite News contacted the embassies and consulates for Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras and Vietnam to learn how those countries manage the repatriation of deportees whose U.S. prison sentences were cut short.
—ProPublica, 24 Nov. 2025
He was sent to Honduras, where immigration agents from Venezuela processed deportees from the U.S.
—Whitney Eulich, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Nov. 2025
The Herald spoke to six men in Mexico and lawyers for six other deportees who say the Department of Homeland Security drove them in buses to the southern border and handed them over to authorities in Mexico.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deportee
refugee
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Lots of small, family-owned and run Vietnamese and Vietnamese-Chinese refugee businesses there, alongside a long-standing Greek restaurant and a German restaurant with an urban legend about being haunted, and now, some Latinx businesses, a Jamaican restaurant, a Somali restaurant.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Turkish officials have expressed concern that intervention in Iran could spark instability or trigger a refugee influx.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Deportee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deportee. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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