deportable

[di-pawrt-uh-buhl]

adjective

1. (of an offense) legally punishable by deportation.

2. (of a person) subject to being deported.

Example Sentences

Advocates worry the confusion serves as a way for immigration officials to dismiss more asylum cases, which would render the applicants deportable.

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During his tenure, Arpaio prided himself on racially profiling Latinos, stopping cars, invading workplaces, and scoping out churches in an effort to find people who might be deportable.

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Unsurprisingly, Arpaio continued to push for the arrests of people who were potentially deportable, going so far as to establish a hotline and to use “confidential informants” in his quest to find deportable immigrants.

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These omissions, it is asserted, render Khalil deportable under a statute that authorizes deportation for those who have procured an immigration benefit—such as a green card—by fraud or by willfully misrepresenting a material fact.

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Indeed, the belief that every permanent resident or naturalized U.S. citizen is deportable if you just do enough research has already begun to seep into the public consciousness; calls for Zohran Mamdani’s denaturalization—based on, you guessed it, misrepresentations in his citizenship application—began almost immediately after he became the presumptive nominee for mayor of New York City.

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