How to Use deportable in a Sentence

deportable

adjective
  • There's a ton of different crimes that can make somebody deportable.
    — refinery29.com, 25 June 2018
  • If an immigrant has gone through a due process and is deportable, then there’s no reason to raise red flags against the process.
    — Erika Page, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Federal law deems any crime involving a firearm a deportable offense.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Aug. 2021
  • They’re supposed to have reason to believe that a person is deportable, which has been equated to probable cause.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Innocent until proven guilty does not mean innocent until deemed deportable.
    — Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
  • That bill would have required jail for undocumented immigrants charged with deportable crimes.
    — Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The system seems to be tailored more on deciding whether an asylum seeker is deportable from the US or not.
    — Amindeh Blaise Atabong, Quartz Africa, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The memo signed by Rubio also makes the case that another person, whose name is redacted, should be deportable under the same law.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • So with no hearing and no ruling from a judge, Kangethe was stuck in a bureaucratic void — and considered deportable.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The government is happy to have our unpunctual but deportable bodies.
    — Héctor Tobar, Slate Magazine, 24 Jan. 2017
  • This is the last-ditch claim deportable aliens, especially criminals, will try to make to prolong their case and avoid deportation.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 11 June 2020
  • Is any criticism of the Israeli government a deportable offense?
    — Destinee Adams, NPR, 13 Mar. 2025
  • But, because an immigration judge has not ruled on his case, Kangethe has been left in a legal limbo and is considered deportable.
    — Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 19 Aug. 2025
  • When deportable immigrants are arrested, some go into mandatory detention but some must be released.
    — Tal Kopan, CNN, 6 Apr. 2018
  • He was declared deportable in 1985 after overstaying his visa, the outlet reported.
    — Dave Quinn, People.com, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Assault, too, is not a deportable offense, although domestic violence is, Saenz-Rodriguez said.
    — Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2020
  • After all, being in the country without proper authorization would remain a civil--and therefore a deportable--offense.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 6 July 2019
  • The law also authorized warrantless arrest of anyone suspected of being deportable.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Instead, the terminations appear to be connected to a wide range of interactions with law enforcement — many of which may not be deportable offenses, the lawyers said.
    — Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 18 Apr. 2025
  • On Monday the Supreme Court will consider if immigrants whom Congress has deemed deportable can seek sanctuary in the courts.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The new charge carries a possible six-year prison sentence and still qualifies as a deportable crime if jurors opt to convict him of negligent discharge as opposed to the more serious assault count.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The individuals involved in this policy are deportable by ICE if found in the community.
    — Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
  • These requests are not signed by judges, but by ICE officials who identify non-citizens in local custody who the agency suspects are deportable.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The cruelty on display is absurd, as when a prison official brags about the boost in federal funding for detention centers and the growing list of deportable offenses being a boon for business.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 25 July 2019
  • The process is an adversarial one, with a goal of determining whether the person is deportable from the United States, not whether that person merits protection.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2020
  • Chea was deported to Cambodia in August 2018 based on non-deportable offenses, Li said.
    — NBC News, 29 Feb. 2020
  • He was sentenced to 127 months behind bars on federal charges and was rendered automatically deportable under immigration law because of his crimes.
    — Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The Democratic members of Maryland’s delegation threw their arms around a deportable individual alleged to be a member of a violent gang.
    — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Yost says that the new policy will stop ICE from transferring most deportable migrants from local prisons to its custody when they are set to be released from jail, even though federal law requires it.
    — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Local officials are authorized to double as federal agents and issue a hold on immigrants who might be deportable, also called a detainer, on behalf of ICE.
    — Amanda Sakuma, The Intercept, 8 May 2017

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