All 5 Uses
deport
in
Esperanza Rising
(Edited)
- They call it a voluntary deportation.
p. 207.3deportation = being forced to leave a country
- Esperanza lay in bed that night and listened to the others in the front room talk about the sweeps and the deportations.
p. 210.3deportations = instances of forcing people to leave a country
- In March of 1929, the federal government passed the Deportation Act that gave counties the power to send great numbers of Mexicans hack to Mexico.
p. 258.1deportation = related to the act of forcing someone to leave a country
- County officials in Los Angeles, California, organized "deportation trains" and the Immigration Bureau made "sweeps" in the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles, arresting anyone who looked Mexican, regardless of whether or not they were citizens or in the United States legally.
p. 258.3
- The numbers of Mexicans deported during this so-called "voluntary repatriation" was greater than the Native American removals of the nineteenth century and greater than the Japanese-American relocations during World War II.
p. 258.6 *deported = sent out of the country
Definitions:
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(1)
(deport as in: deport from the U.S.) forced removal to another location -- typically a different country
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(2)
(deport as in: deport herself with dignity) behave in a certain manner
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)