Under the terms of his visa, working is a deportable offense.

Deportable aliens can be held up to six months while their cases are reviewed.

But a majority of deportable criminal aliens still do not have to worry.

The first step was simply to determine whether or not the person was deportable.

Although deportable, few people who fail the medical tests are actually deported.

The crime can be a minor one, committed many years ago, that was not even a deportable offense at the time.

He was undoubtedly deportable, as I understand the facts.

Because of his past trouble with the law, he is deportable under the 1996 Immigration Act.

His lawyers have argued that the crime he committed is not a deportable offense.

He said "they appeared to be Israeli citizens" and all five appear to be deportable.

The Immigration Act was retroactive, making people deportable for things done years before.

Before 1996, noncitizens who had committed drug offenses or other serious crimes were deportable.

Courts, he said, should decide whether officials have shown strong enough reasons to keep a deportable alien imprisoned longer than six months.

The total cost of holding deportable inmates in detention could be as much as $200 million a year, they said.

A Nicaraguan resident in this country who gave money to the contras for a hospital would be deportable.

The 1996 act has retroactively made thousands of people deportable for crimes far in their pasts.

The immigration service still holds about 2,800 deportable immigrants who have completed their jail sentences, but whose home countries will not take them.

Deportable aliens are those arrested inside the United States after entering illegally.

Ms. Dee knew nothing about it, but it made her deportable.

Over time, that discretion has been limited, and the class of deportable offenses has expanded.

The parents of these schoolchildren are potentially deportable.

The only group of people identified in the statute as ineligible to receive the fees are deportable aliens.

The immigration service arrests thousands of children each year on suspicion of being deportable aliens.

In 1994 he was found deportable because he had been convicted of carrying an unlicensed gun.

The laws broadened the definitions of what constitutes a deportable crime and who is subject to deportation.