self-deport
self-deport verb: to evict oneself, especially from a country.
Verb
self-deport (third-person singular simple present self-deports, present participle self-deporting, simple past and past participle self-deported)
- To evict oneself, especially from a country.
- In total, at least 620,000 “Ukrainians” self-deported or were deported from Poland and at least 13,000 self-deported from Czechoslovakia to Ukraine.2020, Alan E. Sparks, Into the Carpathians
- “The CBP Home app gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream,” Noem said.2025 March 10, “Trump administration relaunches CBP One asylum app for ‘self-deportation’”, in Al Jazeera
Examples of self-deport in a sentence
- All participants were offered the same benefits as any illegal alien who self-deports using the CBP Home App.2025 May 19, “Project Homecoming Charter Flight Brings Self-Deporters to Honduras, Colombia”, in Department of Homeland Security:
- On Monday, Park, a green-card holder, self-deported to South Korea.2025 June 24, Juliana Kim, “Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S.”, in NPR:
- For Arturo, the decision to self-deport to Mexico came crashing one morning.2025 August 7, Gabriel San Román, “After 28 years, O.C. man self-deports to Tijuana in search of a better life”, in Daily Pilot, archived...
- Worried about being separated from her children — 10-year-old twin girls — she felt she had no choice but to self-deport.2025 October 16, Jazmine Ulloa, “She Self-Deported. Now She and Other Crime Survivors Are Suing ICE.”, in The New York Times, New York...
Forms of self-deport
| third-person singular present | self-deports |
|---|---|
| present participle | self-deporting |
| past participle | self-deported |
| past | self-deported |
Origin of self-deport
From self- + deport.
Questions about self-deport
- What does self-deport mean?
- Self-deport means to evict oneself, especially from a country.
- How do you use self-deport in a sentence?
- All participants were offered the same benefits as any illegal alien who self-deports using the CBP Home App.
- What part of speech is self-deport?
- Self-deport is a verb.
- What is the past tense of self-deport?
- The past tense of self-deport is self-deported.
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