deportable
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- adjective
- /dɪˈpɔːrtəbl/
- Formal
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deportable
- All the men in the study were "deportable" because they entered the country illegally, overstayed their visas, or committed other violations.
- deportable aliens
Examples
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The RAND study tracked 517 deportable immigrant men who were released back to the community between Aug. 4, 2002, and Sept. 2, 2002, from the Los Angeles County Jail operated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
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The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) statistics on the apprehension of "deportable aliens" in the late 1940s and 1950s seemed to corroborate many of the critics' assertions.
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The study was done by examining data collected as part of a previous study of deportable immigrants in the Los Angeles County Jail.
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The findings provide support for law enforcement programs that target deportable immigrants who have a record of being previously deported from the United States.
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Present deportable status and previous deportation were determined based on checks of federal immigration records.
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Previously deported immigrants were also rearrested sooner and arrested more frequently than other deportable immigrants.
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In comparison, the new study shows that deportable immigrants with no record of prior deportation have lower rates of rearrest than male inmates overall (32 percent compared to 50 percent).
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Deportable immigrants who have previously been expelled from the United States are more likely to be rearrested on suspicion of committing a crime after they are released from jail than other deportable immigrants without a prior history of expulsion, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
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The INA created a system of removal for deportable immigrants (20) and specified that certain classes of immigrants are ineligible to receive visas and to be admitted into the United States.
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As a deportable immigrant, he had to report to the local immigration office every month.
How Deportable
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deportable comes from the parts de- 'away' and portare 'to carry', the same root you see in portable and transport. So, in immigration law deportable means someone can be 'carried away' from a country, which is why it means they may be legally removed.