deportable
Americanadjective
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(of an offense) legally punishable by deportation.
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(of a person) subject to being deported.
Example Sentences
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The government said he was deportable under a seldom-used section of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to foreign-policy threats.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
"I'm not deportable to any country," Arpineh told the BBC from the detention facility.
From BBC • Jul. 9, 2025
But he said those cases add to prosecutors’ workloads, depend on cooperation from landowners, and, even if defendants are convicted, the offense is not deportable under federal law.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2023
State and local agencies are far more likely than DHS to come into contact with deportable noncitizens, and state and local criminal justice systems are therefore enmeshed with the immigration enforcement bureaucracy.
From Slate • Aug. 3, 2020
If a citizen, he may lose the right to vote; if not, he becomes immediately deportable.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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