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That said, some deportations can occur on commercial flights, and the deportee may fly accompanied or unaccompanied, depending on the details of the case.
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Zach Wichter, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
The March 15 deportees are being held in El Salvador's notorious maximum-security prison known as CECOT.
—Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2025
The agreement aimed to facilitate the return of deportees in exchange for allowing Venezuela to increase oil exports to the U.S.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
Other immigration plans, including the detention of deportees at Guantanamo Bay and stopping the country's refugee resettlement program, have also been challenged in court.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
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Zach Wichter, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
The March 15 deportees are being held in El Salvador's notorious maximum-security prison known as CECOT.
—Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2025
The agreement aimed to facilitate the return of deportees in exchange for allowing Venezuela to increase oil exports to the U.S.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
Other immigration plans, including the detention of deportees at Guantanamo Bay and stopping the country's refugee resettlement program, have also been challenged in court.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deportee
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Israeli officials have rejected that definition, arguing that descendants don’t qualify as refugees and thus don’t have the right to return to their ancestral homes in what is now Israel.—
Eugenia Yosef and Oren Liebermann,
CNN Money,
28 Apr. 2025
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What might destroy our society is not immigrants or refugees or Palestinians or women seeking abortions or trans people or any of the other assorted others that have been posited as undermining American society.—
Viet Thanh Nguyễn,
Time,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Deportee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deportee. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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