Deportation

Certificate of identity of an individual seeking re-entry to the United States during the Chinese Exclusion Act era, among the Chinese deportation records of the US District court, Los Angeles County, California

Deportation is the expulsion of a person or group of people by a state from its sovereign territory. The actual definition changes depending on the place and context, and it also changes over time. A person who has been deported or is under sentence of deportation is called a deportee.

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