Deport
verb
To force someone to leave a country, usually back to their home country, because they don't have the right to be or stay in that country.
The government decided to deport the illegal immigrants.
Often appears as...
- deport someone
- get deported
verb
To behave or carry oneself in a specified way especially with respect to a particular code.
She deported herself with grace and dignity.
Often appears as...
- deport oneself with dignity
- deport oneself with grace
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Literary
verb
To force someone to leave a country, usually back to their home country, because they don't have the right to be or stay in that country.
The government decided to deport the illegal immigrants.
Often appears as...
- deport someone
- get deported
verb
To behave or carry oneself in a specified way especially with respect to a particular code.
She deported herself with grace and dignity.
Often appears as...
- deport oneself with dignity
- deport oneself with grace
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Government Action
Used to describe official actions by a state or authority, not personal decisions.
The court ruled to deport those who breached their visa conditions.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Consequences
Emphasizes the consequences of not following a country's laws regarding residency or citizenship.
If he doesn't renew his work permit, he risks being deported.
Pro Tip 3/3Involuntary Return
Highlights that deportation is not voluntary; it's a forced return to one's home country.
Refugees fear they will be deported to the conflict zones they fled from.
Pro Tip 1/3Government Action
Used to describe official actions by a state or authority, not personal decisions.
The court ruled to deport those who breached their visa conditions.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Consequences
Emphasizes the consequences of not following a country's laws regarding residency or citizenship.
If he doesn't renew his work permit, he risks being deported.
Pro Tip 3/3Involuntary Return
Highlights that deportation is not voluntary; it's a forced return to one's home country.
Refugees fear they will be deported to the conflict zones they fled from.
Pro Tip 1/3Government Action
Used to describe official actions by a state or authority, not personal decisions.
The court ruled to deport those who breached their visa conditions.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Consequences
Emphasizes the consequences of not following a country's laws regarding residency or citizenship.
If he doesn't renew his work permit, he risks being deported.
Pro Tip 3/3Involuntary Return
Highlights that deportation is not voluntary; it's a forced return to one's home country.
Refugees fear they will be deported to the conflict zones they fled from.
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A New Age of Exploration...
through the desert and why is it important as an anthropologist I use a bunch of different tools the first one is ethnography so I hang out with migrants in the in northern Mexico I talked to them as they're preparing to cross I give them cameras have them photographed border cross for anonymous publication and then I interview them post deportation to see
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Protecting the ocean for...
just cyanide and dynamite in order to mr. fish catch it would also include that to our marine sanctuaries uncut the marker boys delineated along the area in order to increase the fishing grounds if only they weren't his friends Billy said he would deport them but this fishermen
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Erika Pinheiro: What's...
confirmed that my own government had been complicit in issuing this travel alert against me. And since then, I haven't traveled to any other countries, because I'm afraid I'll be detained and deported from those countries as well. These travel restrictions, detentions
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Storytelling can be...
made but deported from Australia because she'd broken the law and now has a criminal record so this bond this poor girl just didn't even know what hit her you know she thought that she was helping a friend and it ended up it was Samantha as a party and so when you see
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What we're missing in...
was an undocumented immigrant, and immigration officials had picked him up. They rallied behind him. An immigration lawyer argued he was too important to the local community to be deported. At the hearing, they even submitted restaurant reviews -- restaurant reviews!
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Juan Enriquez: A...
after they have been signed. And if those soldiers are killed in action, we are deporting their wives, and sometimes, their children. These are the people who protect us. These are the people that we honor. These are the brave. And this is how we're treating them.
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The treadmill's dark and...
treadmills were created to punish English prisoners. At the time, the English prison system was abysmally bad. Execution and deportation were often the punishments of choice, and those who were locked away faced hours of solitude in filthy cells.
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The US Can Move past...
Within 13 days, he was dead. The government never got around to deciding if he should be deported. In this topsy-turvy world, we feel better when we lock up kids with their mothers,
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Almudena Toral:...
Adayanci was sent to a shelter and two foster families while her dad was deported. In her despair, she took a pair of scissors and cut her own hair as a form of protest.
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Monika Bulaj: The hidden...
have been deported or killed in the 20th century. Behind the destruction, I found a soul of places. I met humble people. I heard their prayer and ate their bread.
Video examples
A New Age of Exploration...
through the desert and why is it important as an anthropologist I use a bunch of different tools the first one is ethnography so I hang out with migrants in the in northern Mexico I talked to them as they're preparing to cross I give them cameras have them photographed border cross for anonymous publication and then I interview them post deportation to see
Video examples
Protecting the ocean for...
just cyanide and dynamite in order to mr. fish catch it would also include that to our marine sanctuaries uncut the marker boys delineated along the area in order to increase the fishing grounds if only they weren't his friends Billy said he would deport them but this fishermen
Video examples
Erika Pinheiro: What's...
confirmed that my own government had been complicit in issuing this travel alert against me. And since then, I haven't traveled to any other countries, because I'm afraid I'll be detained and deported from those countries as well. These travel restrictions, detentions
Video examples
Storytelling can be...
made but deported from Australia because she'd broken the law and now has a criminal record so this bond this poor girl just didn't even know what hit her you know she thought that she was helping a friend and it ended up it was Samantha as a party and so when you see
Video examples
What we're missing in...
was an undocumented immigrant, and immigration officials had picked him up. They rallied behind him. An immigration lawyer argued he was too important to the local community to be deported. At the hearing, they even submitted restaurant reviews -- restaurant reviews!
Video examples
Juan Enriquez: A...
after they have been signed. And if those soldiers are killed in action, we are deporting their wives, and sometimes, their children. These are the people who protect us. These are the people that we honor. These are the brave. And this is how we're treating them.
Video examples
The treadmill's dark and...
treadmills were created to punish English prisoners. At the time, the English prison system was abysmally bad. Execution and deportation were often the punishments of choice, and those who were locked away faced hours of solitude in filthy cells.
Video examples
The US Can Move past...
Within 13 days, he was dead. The government never got around to deciding if he should be deported. In this topsy-turvy world, we feel better when we lock up kids with their mothers,
Video examples
Almudena Toral:...
Adayanci was sent to a shelter and two foster families while her dad was deported. In her despair, she took a pair of scissors and cut her own hair as a form of protest.
Video examples
Monika Bulaj: The hidden...
have been deported or killed in the 20th century. Behind the destruction, I found a soul of places. I met humble people. I heard their prayer and ate their bread.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Brad Schneider
American Politician
Passing comprehensive immigration reform and making DACA and DAPA permanent will free people from living in the shadows of fear from deportation to be able to pursue higher education, buy homes, start businesses, and expand our economy and strengthen the communities of the 10th district and our nation.
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Jeff Sessions
American Politician
Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk - especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators.
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Barack Obama
American President
Let's be honest - tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn't realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn't being straight with you. It's also not who we are as Americans.
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Luis Gutierrez
American Politician
The pro-life, pro-family Republicans are now pro-neonatal detention and deportation. It isn't enough to drive out the people not born here; now they want to drive out the ones that were.
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Elie Wiesel
American Novelist
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
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Joe Eszterhas
Hungarian Writer
My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.
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Diane Guerrero
American Actress
I want to be viewed like a serious actress, and I'm afraid that people are just going to see me as the poor little girl whose parents were deported when she was 14.
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Heather Mac Donald
American Editor
There is no reason to protect illegal-alien criminals from deportation. And cities that defy the law should face serious consequences.
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Jack Kingston
American Politician
Deportation isn't something that is suddenly new.
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Jonathan Shapiro
South African Cartoonist
You can't undo a deportation.
Quote examples
Brad Schneider
American Politician
Passing comprehensive immigration reform and making DACA and DAPA permanent will free people from living in the shadows of fear from deportation to be able to pursue higher education, buy homes, start businesses, and expand our economy and strengthen the communities of the 10th district and our nation.
Quote examples
Jeff Sessions
American Politician
Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk - especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators.
Quote examples
Barack Obama
American President
Let's be honest - tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn't realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn't being straight with you. It's also not who we are as Americans.
Quote examples
Luis Gutierrez
American Politician
The pro-life, pro-family Republicans are now pro-neonatal detention and deportation. It isn't enough to drive out the people not born here; now they want to drive out the ones that were.
Quote examples
Elie Wiesel
American Novelist
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
Quote examples
Joe Eszterhas
Hungarian Writer
My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.
Quote examples
Diane Guerrero
American Actress
I want to be viewed like a serious actress, and I'm afraid that people are just going to see me as the poor little girl whose parents were deported when she was 14.
Quote examples
Heather Mac Donald
American Editor
There is no reason to protect illegal-alien criminals from deportation. And cities that defy the law should face serious consequences.
Quote examples
Jack Kingston
American Politician
Deportation isn't something that is suddenly new.
Quote examples
Jonathan Shapiro
South African Cartoonist
You can't undo a deportation.
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