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The forced removal of a person from the country where they had been living.
means The formal, forced removal of a person from a country by its government, usually because they're deemed to lack the legal right to stay.
from From Latin deportare — 'to carry away,' built from de- ('away') plus portare ('to carry'), the same portare that gives us 'port' and 'transport.' The Romans used it for banishment, literally shipping troublesome citizens off to some distant island. English borrowed the word in that same sense of being carried off by force — the state doing the carrying, you having no say in the destination.
- legal basis
- civil, not criminal, proceeding in the US
- due process
- immigration court, no guaranteed free lawyer
- root word
- latin deportare, literally to carry away
- modern scale
- millions removed globally every single year