What's the difference between deportation and repatriation?

Deportation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sabogal was one of a group of four Colombians who took over the reins of the country's biggest drug-trafficking outfit after the arrest and deportation to the United States of drug baron Luis Hernando Gómez Bustamante in 2004.
  • (2) The pair’s colleague, Baher Mohamed, is ineligible for deportation as he only holds an Egyptian passport.
  • (3) In the present paper the human pulmonary trophoblastic deportation was studied in 180 sputum specimens from 90 pregnant, parturient and puerperal patients.
  • (4) Those who have committed a crime on British soil can expect to serve their prison sentence, and then be held in a prison-like detention centre with no definite date of release while the UK Border Agency works out how or if they can be deported – a process that can take months, or even years.
  • (5) Those who have escaped form a growing underclass of refugees on the Thai border, where they eke out a meagre living and face deportation at any time.
  • (6) A Tamil asylum seeker, speaking on condition on anonymity, fears being re-detained or deported: We are scared to go and meet the government.
  • (7) This was evident just this week when, as an example, a young woman in San Francisco was viciously killed by a five-time deported Mexican with a long criminal record, who was forced back into the United States because they didn’t want him in Mexico.
  • (8) Eventually I discovered that of around 100 people from my town who were deported, only about 10 survived, only two of whom were children – my sister and me.
  • (9) Instead of ordering deportation of the three absent juveniles, Judge A Ashley Tabaddor agreed with their attorney, Miguel Mexicano, an Esperanza staffer, that the cases should be rescheduled and relocated.
  • (10) Randall, a former banking computer analyst and a widower with two grownup daughters, learned on Wednesday that charges of "trafficking obscene material" had been dropped and he was to be deported.
  • (11) It would have been better if they had killed me.” Naseri was forcibly deported in August 2014, but the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) ruling to send him back was made in December 2012, based on security advice at that time.
  • (12) Appeal court judges say they will deliver their ruling before Easter on the latest attempt by the home secretary, Theresa May , to lift the legal block on deporting the radical Islamist cleric, Abu Qatada, back to Jordan.
  • (13) Some of those awaiting deportation have been living in Australia for decades.
  • (14) Plagued by prison riots, IRA breakouts, illegal deportations, verdicts that found him in contempt of court, and over-hasty legislation on dogs, he acquired a reputation – as home secretaries often do – for being accident-prone.
  • (15) The case raises serious questions about political interference in deportation and how Britain's human rights obligations can be undermined.
  • (16) Over the past six years, the Home Office has deported 605 Afghans who arrived in the UK as unaccompanied minors, according to a recent report from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism .
  • (17) But she did tell MPs that the minimum effect of this week's events would be to delay Qatada's deportation for at least another two months while a panel of Strasbourg judges met to decide whether his appeal was made in time.
  • (18) The students said they were told in London that a journalist would accompany them and that they risked deportation or detention if they were rumbled.
  • (19) Theresa May rightly took comfort from the fact that the ruling does not prevent the government from deporting other foreign nationals.
  • (20) Around 40% of all Mexicans deported from the US are repatriated into Tijuana , on Mexico's Pacific coast.

Repatriation


Definition:

  • (n.) Restoration to one's country.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All the wounded Britons have been repatriated , including four severely injured people who were brought back by an RAF C-17 transport plane.
  • (2) Setting out how Britain would have a lever over the rest of the EU to demand repatriation of UK competences, Cameron said: "What's happening in Europe right now is massive change being driven by the existence of the euro.
  • (3) An amendment from George Eustice, a new but influential MP who used to work for Cameron, calls on the coalition to publish a white paper in the next two years setting out which powers ministers would repatriate from Brussels.
  • (4) It also said the repatriation was conducted with the full knowledge and concurrence of PNG police.
  • (5) As a result, the Kenyan government signed an agreement with UNHCR to work on voluntary repatriation of Somali refugees in Dadaab.
  • (6) Around 40% of all Mexicans deported from the US are repatriated into Tijuana , on Mexico's Pacific coast.
  • (7) Recently repatriated Dempsey, late of Fulham and Spurs, is the main source of goals, perhaps unsurprisingly given that the first-choice striker is Altidore.
  • (8) Separation and bed-day rates per 1000 persons for public, Repatriation and private hospitals in 1985 have been estimated by age group, for each sex, in each State and Territory in Australia.
  • (9) One proposed solution, favoured by the Republican party for decades and periodically enacted, is a repatriation tax holiday - a fixed period during which money brought onshore is taxed less.
  • (10) A secret US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks suggests the Foreign Office has privately admitted its latest plan to declare the islands the world's largest marine protection zone will end any chance of them being repatriated .
  • (11) America's once dominant internet giants, with 80% of the globe under their sway, now face "Balkanised" regulation round the world as nation states seek to repatriate digital sovereignty.
  • (12) Around 1,300 FDLR fighters have been disarmed and repatriated to Rwanda since the offensive began, according to the UN.
  • (13) At the end of the 20th century, Britain asks for the repatriation of the “Papadopoulos steel”.
  • (14) • 57,000 unaccompanied children have been apprehended at the border in 2014, and between 1,300 and 1,500 have been repatriated so far.
  • (15) The biggest, Egypt’s Orascom, is unable to repatriate profits from its mobile telecoms joint venture – which now faces a domestic DPRK competitor.
  • (16) The former prime minister said the UK should become a federal state, with the Scottish parliament taking control over fisheries, farming, welfare and far more taxation after EU powers are repatriated to the UK.
  • (17) I doubt whether Mr Cameron can avoid a repeat over the repatriation of powers when the next campaign comes.
  • (18) It is understood Downing Street is planning to include a commitment to repatriate these powers in the Conservative manifesto for the next election.
  • (19) The MEDLARS database, from 1966 to the present, under the terms military personnel, veterans, veterans' disability claims, combat disorders and prisoners (matched against war); databases of the Department of Veterans' Affairs (Victoria) and the Central Library, Commonwealth Department of Defense, under the term "prisoner of war"; and the microfiche listings of the Department of Veterans' Affairs, under "prisoner of war" and "repatriation".
  • (20) McCain's point is that the low rate of repatriation represents a lure for potential immigrants because the chances are they'll make it.