deportees

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

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refugees
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  • Most contentiously, these rollbacks to Medicaid cuts would reverse restrictions that made immigrants who are generally present in the country legally, such as refugees and asylum-seekers, ineligible for Medicaid and ACA coverage.
    Simon F. Haeder, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In 1945, three men — two Jewish refugees living in Brooklyn and one Nazi deserter — enlisted in the Office of Strategic Services, a precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency in the United States.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Deportees.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deportees. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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