Example Sentences

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"This government is deporting foreign national offenders at pace, with more than 5,000 deported last year - a 14% increase on the previous year."

From BBC • May 20, 2026

The administration needs to convince Americans that its priority actually is deporting criminals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Strangely — or maybe not so strangely — at the same time that the U.S. is deporting such “despicable human beings,” it’s demanding the extradition of others, including dozens of Mexicans.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2025

“The U.S. is deporting a lot to Haiti, now I don’t know if I can enter or leave,” Petion said.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2021

Ten thousand landslides take place every spring, contributing their tons of mud to the millions that the river is deporting to the broad catch basins called the Athabaska and Great Slave Lakes.

From The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake by Seton, Ernest Thompson