Sentence examples for grounds for deportation from inspiring English sources

Eager to crack down, Congress greatly expanded the grounds for deportation and made immigrants and refugees deportable retroactively for crimes that were not deportable offenses when committed.

But that shouldn't be grounds for deportation".

Nearly all drug offenses, no matter what the magnitude, are grounds for deportation under the law.

A conviction also could be grounds for deportation for Roy, a Canadian.

One provision of the law turned petty crimes into grounds for deportation.

An immigration official had become leery of his "playboy ways" and thought Mr. Obama might have more than one wife, which can be grounds for deportation.

But the 1996 Immigration Act makes a conviction for domestic violence an automatic, unreviewable ground for deportation.

But, he added, "Because it was a less serious ground for deportation, he might be eligible for more forms of relief.

The turning point was in 1988 when, as part of the 'war on drugs', the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 introduced the category of 'aggravated felony' as a ground for deportation, which has since been used to facilitate the removal of thousands of non-citizens from the United States.

They would not have "entered" the country illegally (a finable misdemeanor, but not in itself ground for deportation in any event).

But it ruled that Mr. Judulang could not because the grounds for his deportation were not comparable to the grounds that apply to exclusion.