deportable

From deport +‎ -able.

deportable (comparative more deportable, superlative most deportable)

1. Able to be deported.
   • 2007 February 23, Nina Bernstein, “One Immigrant Family’s Hopes Lead to a Jail Cell Suicide”, in The New York Times‎:

     His criminal convictions — for an attempted robbery in 2003, and for breaking into two parked cars to steal stereos in 2005 — were more than enough to make him deportable.

   • 2007 October 3, Nina Bernstein, “Raids Were a Shambles, Nassau Complains to U.S.”, in The New York Times‎:

     They repeatedly passed up the invitation to check a list of 96 deportable gang associates active in Nassau County against a local police database that is updated daily, he said.

deportable (plural deportables)

1. (rare, sometimes offensive) Someone who is deportable.
   • 1939, Canadian Public Health Journal, volume 30, "the+deportables" page 524:

     4. Deportables as a group show a death rate of 42. Our immigrants who have been in Canada over five years, show a rate of 36. The deportables have a higher rate, chiefly, no doubt, because they are on the average five years or more younger.
     The death rate of 21 in deportables from the British Isles is lower than our provincial rate of 28; the rate of those from Europe is to our rate as 47 is to 28;

   • 1941, The ... Year Book of Public Health, Volume 2‎, page 193:

     Comparing the incidence of cases with bacillary sputum, 69.2 per cent of the deportables showed bacilli on admission, in contrast with 45 per cent among provincial cases. Outcome was poor among the deportables; 41.7 per cent died.

   • 1948, Isaac Don Levine, Plain Talk‎^{"the+deportables"}, page 7:

     At least 50 per cent of the deportables who broke down had tuberculosis on entering Canada. Sanatorium treatment for 185 deportables cost Saskatchewan $196,- 237.25.

   • 1992, Asian Americans and the Supreme Court: A Documentary History‎, page 90:

     These increases in the ranks of the excludables brought an accompanying increase in the ranks of the deportables under the catch-all provision making any alien who shall come to the United States in violation of law deportable.

   • 2006, New York Murder Mystery: The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s‎, page 241:

     Could this policy have helped to cut the crime rate significantly, especially in areas like New York with disproportionately large concentrations of undocumented and recent immigrants, some of whom were deeply involved in illegal activities? The crackdown could have made a difference if the deportables were in fact expelled, if alien ex-cons who wanted to reenter New York and wreak more havoc could not get back in the country, and if this get-tough policy had the intended effect of deterring unlawful impulses among recent immigrants who were not yet naturalized citizens

   • 2007, Black Geographies and the Politics of Place‎, page 177:

     For one thing, it commits a displacement or erasure, directing attention away from the nation-state doing the expelling and towards the places of origin, which in complementary discourses are held responsible for the deportables' deviation from being ideal Canadian Citizens. After deportation, the "removed to" are then grouped together in the public mind as "deportees" or "returnees,", held in fear and suspicion by their supposed countrymen and women. They have been expelled and made into the unbelonging

• IPA^(key): /depoɾˈtable/
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: de‧por‧ta‧ble

deportable m or f (masculine and feminine plural deportables)

1. deportable