Self-deportation

Quick meaning: Self-deportation is a noun meaning A voluntary emigration by members of an unwanted or illegal population, often as a result of policies that make staying in their country of residence difficult.

Meaning

A voluntary emigration by members of an unwanted or illegal population, often as a result of policies that make staying in their country of residence difficult.

Example Sentences

As mentioned earlier, Romney said that he would address the issue of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States through a policy of “self-deportation.”

But in a show of one of the lucid flashes common to dementia, Fabian executed a document in which he stated he was not requesting a ticket for self-deportation, but only for a visit to Nigeria.

Doak encouraged local immigration officers, law enforcement agencies, and repatriation-sympathetic newspapers to join forces to publicize deportation raids, frightening many Mexicans into self-deportation.

Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is launching the CBP Home app with a self-deportation reporting feature for aliens illegally in the country.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include expatriation, demigration, exile, transportation, expelee, expulsation.

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