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Recent Examples of repatriate
Rachel Treisman, NPR, 18 Mar. 2025
In addition, Venezuela sent two flights to Texas to repatriate nearly 200 Venezuelans on Feb. 10.
—Ronny Rojas, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2025
Instead, the government sent special charter flights to Wuhan to repatriate citizens and their Chinese spouses and families, incurring a widespread public backlash for doing so.
—Edward Alden, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2025
The Bring Kids Back initiative has repatriated 1,243 children, according to The Mirror, although campaigners say there are still thousands of children separated from their families.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
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Verb
Several thousand of them were ultimately repatriated to their country of origin, either by choice or by force.
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This work provided a full understanding of Japanese business culture and granted her the opportunity to live for five years as an expatriate in Silicon Valley.—
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States with net losses of residents are developing innovative and aggressive ways to capture tax revenue from their expatriates.—
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Thoughtful estate planning can rectify this oversight, ensuring that non-biological but emotionally significant heirs receive their fair share.—
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Emmett — who recently directed Travolta and Quavo's new film High Rollers — also shared pictures of Travolta receiving the massive steak on his Instagram Stories.—
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Cao herself was flown out of Vietnam in 1975 and came to the States as a 13-year-old refugee.—
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Layoffs also hit the entire staff at the HHS Administration for Children and Families, a division that provides support for child care, family violence prevention, refugee resettlement and Head Start programs. 5.—
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Derivative citizenship has become an important pathway to citizenship for thousands of children of immigrants who naturalize annually, helping ensure family unity in the U.S. immigration system.—
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The question's sensitivity is particularly evident in the lower response rates among households with at least one non-U.S. citizen, U.S.-born Latino or naturalized U.S. citizen who was born outside Latin America.—
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Washington claims many of the deportees are connected to the infamous Tren de Aragua gang, which the U.S. has designated a terrorist organization.—
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One key misunderstanding, whether willful or ill informed, seems to center on tattoos—the kinds that Andry, and many of the other deportees, have.—
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Other states that received some of the highest interstate migrants were North Carolina (392,010), South Carolina (314,953), Arizona (252,654) and Tennessee (252,180).—
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Karim Daoud, an Egyptian migrant of Flemington, N.J., willingly went to an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office to clear up a problem with his work-authorization documents and was ultimately detained in an ICE facility, according to family friend Rachel Mascitelli.—
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The arrest came as people with ties to American universities, most of whom have shown support for pro-Palestinian causes, have been detained in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.—
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But there are multiple factors that are unique to Spain, including the fact that the majority of Spain's immigrants come from Latin America.—
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The motel, which is owned by his father and his uncle, emigrants from London, is not far from where Naran grew up, in Echo Park.—
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The emigrants killed were traveling by wagon to California at the time.—
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“Repatriate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repatriate. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.
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