How to Use deportation in a Sentence

deportation

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  • The mass murder, the mass rape, the mass deportation, and so on?
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Sep. 2022
  • They had been rounded up, bound for deportation to Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp in Poland.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
  • But the first Rwanda deportation flight did not take off as planned.
    — Tazreena Sajjad, The Conversation, 28 July 2022
  • Along the way, the family endures the stress of police raids and the constant threat of deportation.
    — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 24 June 2022
  • And yet, hundreds of migrants say they were told to stay put in them, or risk deportation.
    — Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 24 June 2024
  • In that case, the person would be subject to deportation.
    — Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 10 May 2024
  • Now, with Trump returning to the White House, Ramos fears her mother is again at risk of deportation.
    — Tyche Hendricks, NPR, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Within a month the Nazis started deportations to death camps and took away our rabbi.
    — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The lawsuit alleges that the company used threats of deportation to keep the workers from leaving the bunkhouse.
    — Kevin McGill, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The satire of current events had Clown-in-Chief Klump holding a press conference to announce the deportation of all dogs.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2024
  • But then, near the end of the book, her grandfather receives a deportation order.
    — Nicolás Medina Mora, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The United States levied sanctions against Russians linked to the forcible deportation of Ukraine’s children.
    — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The Canadian rapper was convicted of three felony charges and faces up to 22 years in prison and deportation.
    — Ashley Boucher and Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2022
  • One set of advisers saw mass deportation as the only option; the other balked at the human cost.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Yet Harris has not pledged mass deportations or a crackdown anything like what Trump has called for.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald and Matt Egan, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024
  • His goal is to get a green card, which would relieve him of the fear of eventual deportation and give him the time to return to his former profession.
    — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Fear of deportation kept this worker at Stash’s for almost 14 years.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
  • As Science has reported, the spat led to the deportation of David Gaveau, a French landscape ecologist who worked with the agency.
    — Bydyna Rochmyaningsih, science.org, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Medea faces deportation; her children will stay with Jason and Creuse.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • But Miller had also spent time brainstorming how to carry out the mass deportation that hadn’t happened in Trump’s first term.
    — Andrew Prokop, Vox, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The rest of the family was loaded onto a deportation train and understood that they were being sent to Auschwitz.
    — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2022
  • In May, the number of Georgia migrants with new deportation cases was 4,963.
    — Lautaro Grinspan, ajc, 3 July 2023
  • In the days before her deportation to Auschwitz, Kashtichker hid her family's documents and photos in the urn and buried it.
    — Becky Perlow, ABC News, 8 July 2024
  • Almost three years later, the 50-year-old Trejo can now work without much fear of deportation.
    — Palabra, al, 25 May 2022
  • But many Latinos have been turned off by Trump's heated rhetoric about immigrants and his plan for mass deportations.
    — Russell Contreras, Axios, 11 Aug. 2024
  • The threat of deportation for those who battle their farm bosses is real and pervasive.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • All of the Honduras and El Salvador natives face deportation upon release from jail or prison.
    — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 30 June 2022
  • The number of migrants arriving in the U.S. is still high, and the Biden administration has ramped up deportations.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 28 July 2023
  • His wife, Lucie, who doted on my mother, her namesake, died at the transit camp in Drancy, awaiting deportation to the East.
    — David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
  • Immigration, in addition to the economy, was a core issue for American voters; Trump’s stance on immigration and his promises of mass deportation likely contributed to his win.
    — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024

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