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Recent Examples of deportee
However, lawyers for the deportees say the U.N. response undermines that claim.
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Dan Gooding
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
That’s taken many forms, including mass deportations of criminals and non-violent offenders alike and sending them back to their home countries, domestic camps that have been turned into detainment sites for undocumented migrants and, in some cases, using foreign prisons to house deportees.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 3 July 2025
Images released by the Defense Department show dozens of deportees, shackled and seated inside a C-17 Globemaster III as U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents helped load people onto the military cargo plane.
—Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 3 July 2025
Immigrants who entered the country illegally but who have not committed crimes while here represent a far larger pool of potential deportees.
—Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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Dan Gooding
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
That’s taken many forms, including mass deportations of criminals and non-violent offenders alike and sending them back to their home countries, domestic camps that have been turned into detainment sites for undocumented migrants and, in some cases, using foreign prisons to house deportees.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 3 July 2025
Images released by the Defense Department show dozens of deportees, shackled and seated inside a C-17 Globemaster III as U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents helped load people onto the military cargo plane.
—Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 3 July 2025
Immigrants who entered the country illegally but who have not committed crimes while here represent a far larger pool of potential deportees.
—Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deportee
refugee
Noun
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In 1999, then-Fort Dix provided temporary shelter to hundreds of Kosovo refugees amid the Kosovo War.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
20 July 2025
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On January 26, 2023, Israeli soldiers, hidden in the cargo hold of a dairy truck, rode into the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, where the Magnum photographer Sakir Khader was preparing to leave for his grandmother’s home in Nablus.—
M. Z. Adnan,
New Yorker,
20 July 2025
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“Deportee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deportee. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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