Sentence examples for permanent deportation from inspiring English sources

In their opinion, the behavior of the undocumented is so egregious that no penalty short of permanent deportation can make up for it.

"Using the criminal system to funnel individuals into removal proceedings often leads to deportation and permanent exile from one's friends, family, and life in the United States regardless of the nature or indeed the guilt of the underlying offense," Mackler told me.

In yesterday's ruling, the appeals court said that while the agency had the right to detain a lawful permanent resident before deportation, due process required that it hold a bail hearing "with reasonable promptness" to determine whether the particular immigrant posed a flight risk or a danger to the community.

Like others in his class, the lead plaintiff in the case, Alejandro Rodriguez, was detained for three years without a hearing, even though he was a lawful permanent resident facing deportation over two minor offenses, a drug charge and joyriding as a teenager.

Lawyers at the Legal Aid Society, a nonprofit group for low-income New Yorkers, said that they had handled at least eight cases in the past few years involving permanent residents who faced deportation because they had registered to vote.

The issue in the first case is whether a conviction for drunken driving that causes injury can be considered an "aggravated felony," which makes a lawful permanent resident subject to deportation.

The deportation of permanent residents was rare.

Women testifying that they had been raped, but were afraid to go to the police, because they feared deportation and permanent separation from their own families.

The court had heard arguments in April over whether to revive Obama's plan to spare roughly 4 million undocumented immigrants – those who have lived illegally in the US at least since 2010, have no criminal record and have children who are US citizens or lawful permanent residents – from mass deportations that would rip many families apart.

In the next ten years, the deportation of legal permanent residents left some hundred thousand American children without a parent.

President Obama still has time to save an important group of immigrants from deportation -- lawful permanent residents who once committed minor criminal offenses, somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 people.