How to Use deportee in a Sentence

deportee

noun
  • Poor and desperate deportee, looking to find some way—any way—to stay on the right side of the border.
    — Paolo Bacigalupi, Wired News, 27 May 2015
  • Some of the deportees carried backpacks, and others seemed to have nothing at all.
    — Tommy Trenchard, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • In South Korea, one deportee served a prison term for robbing a bank with a toy gun.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, The Seattle Times, 7 July 2017
  • How deportees would be treated by governments that are not their own is also an open question.
    — May 5, CBS News, 5 May 2025
  • But the millions of deportees would also have to be detained and housed prior to removal.
    — Laura Strickler, NBC News, 16 July 2024
  • Trump ignored a court order that planes carrying deportees should not leave the country.
    — Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Marimba music pipes through loudspeakers as deportees who've just arrived file through the door.
    — CNN, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Cuba does not have to accept deportees from the United States.
    — Kathleen McWilliams, courant.com, 13 Jan. 2018
  • The border documents also can be used for a free bus ride from the border crossing to the deportee’s hometown.
    — Stacy St. Clair, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2019
  • Germany canceled a plane that was to take deportees to Kabul on Wednesday.
    — Associated Press, Washington Post, 1 June 2017
  • Since then, the group has grown to about 60 as more recent deportees began adopting and supporting the project.
    — Maria Santana, CNN, 20 Apr. 2018
  • One by one the deportees marched, flanked on each side by the uniformed men, curses and threats accompanying the thud of their feet on the frozen ground.
    — Adam Hochschild, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
  • For many Honduran deportees, home means a return to the brutality that sent them fleeing north in the first place.
    — Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
  • Rodriguez is part of a group of fellow deportees that help migrants find housing in Tijuana.
    — Gustavo Solis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Even jobless deportees are still seen as coming from the more monied and privileged United States.
    — CNN, 7 June 2018
  • For these deportees, home is a neighborhood ruled by murderous gangs who extort money and demand that young men join their ranks — killing those who refuse to obey.
    — Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
  • The young deportee is a household name in the small community in El Salvador where he and his brother were born.
    — Kervy Robles and Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The most recent deportee arrived in Cambodia in May, Herod added.
    — Agnes Constante, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2017
  • According to the justices in the majority, the lawyers should have brought their case to a judge in Texas, where the deportees had been briefly detained.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2025
  • But at the time, Cuba would not accept any additional people who had arrived on the Mariel boat lift as deportees.
    — CBS News, 19 May 2017
  • Our progressive friends in the media will fill the airwaves with the tears and wailing of deportees, and we will be treated to no end of sympathetic stories.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Tens of thousands of deportees were sent back to El Salvador, a country the size of Massachusetts.
    — Sarah Garland, Time, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Some of those approached by the US, such as Nigeria, have decried being pressured to take in foreign deportees.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 18 July 2025
  • The United States is paying $6 million to El Salvador to house the deportees.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The Support Group for Refugees and Returnees, meanwhile, is struggling to cope with the volume of deportees.
    — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Waiting to greet Alvarez and other young deportees was Israel Concha, 38, who knows the feeling all too well.
    — Oscar Lopez / Mexico City, Time, 9 Mar. 2018
  • But hours after the blast, the government in Berlin said that a flight carrying deportees bound for Afghanistan scheduled for Wednesday had been postponed.
    — Mujib Mashal, Fahim Abed and Jawad Sukhanyar, New York Times, 31 May 2017
  • Many deportees will look for ways to get back to the United States, joining the 250 Salvadoreans who leave the country every day.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
  • But the Defense Department said the first group of 10 deportees, who were brought to the base on Tuesday, were too dangerous for the migrant site.
    — Hamed Aleaziz, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2025
  • For the deportees, many of whom have children in Australia, the policy has been brutal, said Filipa Payne, the founder of the advocacy group Route 501.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023

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