0 present participle of deport
1 to force someone to leave a country, especially someone who has no legal right to be there or who has broken the law:
There is an increasing practice of deporting the leaders merely because they have had the courage to stand up for the rights of their fellows.
The short-term residence permits proposed here will not undermine the current practice of deporting illegal immigrants.
What possible justification can there be for deporting this man now?
I do not wish to question the policy of deporting here.
The injustice of just one mistake may well have done far more harm than the good of deporting just one person.
It was not a question of whether this or that man was to be departed, or of whether there was any necessity for deporting aliens.
There is more than a legalistic difference between refusing entry and deporting.
Have we really got to the stage of deporting 63-year-old widows?
