单词 | self-deportation |
释义 | self-deportationn. Now chiefly U.S. The fact or action of voluntarily leaving a place; (in later use chiefly) spec. the action or an act of voluntarily leaving a foreign country in which one has been living without legal authorization, esp. in order to return to one's own country.In spec. sense, chiefly in the context of political debate concerning illegal immigration. ΚΠ 1817 New Monthly Mag. Oct. 206/1 Speedy detection and conviction of offenders in the earlier stages.., and active correspondence with..the favourite ports of self-deportation. 1888 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 16 May 4/3 The American negroes [in Brazil]..have no idea of undertaking any wild schemes of colonization and self-deportation to far-away lands. 1936 Times 15 June 12/3 Other colonies here [in Tangier] appreciate the humour of the self-deportation of 170 troublesome Spanish agitators. 1994 Orange County (Calif.) Register 28 Oct. (Metro section) 9/1 Gov. Wilson..said that if someone told him he couldn't be hired because he was in this country illegally, he would just go home—self-deportation. 2006 Detroit Free Press 11 June c2 Employers who hire illegals should be..jailed, which would then lead to massive self-deportations by the jobless illegals. 2013 J. Bush & C. Bolick Immigration Wars (2014) 211 The toxic rhetoric of ‘self deportation’ suggests that certain groups are not wanted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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