adjective
- subject to or liable to deportation; able to be deported
Usage: legal/immigration context
Examples
- The immigration judge ruled that the defendant was deportable due to his criminal conviction.
- Non-citizens convicted of certain felonies may be deportable.
- She was deemed deportable after overstaying her visa.
- The law specifies which offenses make an immigrant deportable.
- Deportable aliens have the right to an immigration hearing.