self-deportation
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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
- "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."
- "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."
- "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.”"
- "Even noted opponents of convict colonialism such as Alexander Merensky noted that the utility of transportation was already well understood by those amongst the urban poor who had, he argued, resorted to 'self-deportation' through mass emigration to better their lives."
- "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."
- "The renamed app, announced Monday and now called CBP Home, is part of the administration’s campaign to encourage “self-deportations, ” touted as an easy and cost-effective way to nudge along President Donald Trump’s push to deport millions of immigrants without legal status."
Etymology
From self- + deportation.