# List of people deported or removed from the United States

The following is an incomplete list of notable people who have been deported from the United States. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), particularly the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), handles all matters of deportation. Their decisions may be appealed and reviewed by federal judges.
In several cases (i.e., Charlie Chaplin, Adam Habib and Conrad Gallagher), the orders of deportation and/or exclusion were later lifted. Among many changes in terminology, "removal" superseded "deportation" in 1996 following the enactment of Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA).
Aside from the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, there was no applicable deportation law in the United States until an 1882 statute specifically geared towards Chinese immigrants. The Alien and Sedition Acts gave the President of the United States the power to arrest and subsequently deport any alien that he deemed dangerous. The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act was designed to suspend Chinese immigration to the United States, and deport Chinese residents that were termed as illegally residing in the country. The types of individuals that could be deported from the United States was later reclassified to include those who were insane or carrying a disease, convicts, prostitutes, those entering the United States over the immigration quotas, anarchists, and those that belonged to organizations which supported the overthrow of the United States government by use of violence.
Legislation enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1891 gave a time limit of one year after an alien entered the country for the individual to be deported and decreased judicial review of deportation proceedings. The office of superintendent of immigration in the Department of the Treasury was also created with the 1891 enactment, and this responsibility later passed to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). During the Red Scare in 1919, a number of persons were deported under suspicion of illegal activity. The statute of limitations on deportation from the United States was removed under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. Deportation laws were cited during the 1950s in order to remove union leaders and alleged members of the Communist party said to be illegally in the country. According to Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, about 23,000 aliens were deported annually from the country during the latter period of the 1980s.
If an alien is deemed by the government to be removable, they will receive a "notice to appear" (NTA) and later face an immigration judge, who will decide whether or not the alien is removable from the United States. Either party (the alien or the government prosecutor) may appeal (by legal brief, not in person) an immigration judge's decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). If an alien fails to appear for any immigration hearing, such person is usually ordered removed in absentia. Those individuals who illegally entered the United States constitute the single largest portion of people deported from the country. Once deported or removed, an alien is not allowed to legally reenter the country unless given special permission to do so by either the DHS or the EOIR. The DHS has placed 164,000 criminals in removal proceedings in 2007, and estimated that figure would be 200,000 for 2008.
In 2001, approximately 73,000 illegal aliens with criminal convictions were deported from the United States, and in 2007 this figure was 91,000. In 2011, the DHS deported 396,906 people. Of those deported, 54.6% were criminal offenders.

## List

| Individual | Occupation | Citizen of | Year deported | Deported to | Reasons for deportation |
| Andrija Artuković | Lawyer, politician, revolutionary | Independent State of Croatia | 1986 | Yugoslavia | World War II war criminal, co-founder and leader of the fascist, ultranationalist and terrorist organization Ustase, died in 1988 |
| Trevor Berbick | Jamaican heavyweight boxer | Jamaica | 1997, 2002 | Jamaica | Rape and sexual assault convictions, and parole violations |
| Conrad Black, Lord Black of Crossharbour | Publisher, businessman | Canada United Kingdom | 2012 | Canada | Mail fraud and obstruction of justice convictions |
| Griselda Blanco | Drug lord for the Medellín Cartel, involved in the Miami-based cocaine drug trade during the 1970s and early 1980s | Colombia | 2004 | Colombia | Various and multiple criminal convictions |
| Charles Hopel Brown | Jamaican author, computer engineer, and U.S. Army veteran | Jamaica | 2004 | Jamaica | Resisting arrest, probation violations |
| Hermine Braunsteiner | Female Nazi concentration camp guard | / Germany United States | 1973 | West Germany | First Nazi to be deported from the United States; denaturalized and extradited at West German government's request |
| Joe Cahill | Prominent Irish republican and former Chief of Staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army | Ireland | 1984 | Ireland | Illegal entry |
| Charlie Chaplin | British actor and director | United Kingdom England | | United Kingdom England | Denied a re-entry permit to the U.S. after a trip abroad, reportedly instigated by J. Edgar Hoover; returned briefly to the U.S. in 1972 |
| Anna Chapman | Soviet-born Russian national | Russia United Kingdom (later revoked) | 2010 | Russia | Illegals Program spy ring under the Russian Federation's SVR; also stripped of UK citizenship soon after U.S. deportation |
| John Demjanjuk | Guard at Nazi German extermination camps | Ukraine United States Israel | 2009 | Israel (First deportation) Germany (Second deportation) | Alleged Nazi war criminal, denaturalized in 2002, and finally deported in 2009 to Germany from Israel, which had filed war crimes charges |
| Joe Doherty | Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer | Ireland | 1992 | Ireland | Involvement with Provisional Irish Republican Army |
| Hanns Eisler | Composer | Austria Germany | 1948 | Austria | Alleged communist ties, victim of McCarthyism |
| Raffaello Follieri | Real estate developer, socialite | Italy | 2012 | Italy | Legal misappropriation of funds related to the "Vati-Con scandal" |
| Johanna Gadski | Operatic soprano singer | Prussia | 1918 | Germany | Declared an enemy alien by the Wilson administration and deported from the United States during World War I |
| Conrad Gallagher | Irish chef and restaurateur | Ireland | 2002 | Ireland | Financial convictions in the United States and Ireland |
| Marcus Garvey | Founder of Universal Negro Improvement Association | Jamaica | 1927 | Jamaica | Fraud conviction related to sale of stock in one of his businesses |
| Peter Gatien | Businessman and New York nightclub owner | Canada | 2003 | Canada | Tax-evasion convictions |
| Emma Goldman | Anarchist and political activist | Russia United States | 1919 | Soviet Union | |
| Adam Habib | Scholar | South Africa | 2006 | South Africa | Apprehended and deported over allegations of "engaging in terrorist activities", ban lifted in 2010 |
| C. L. R. James | Journalist, social theorist | Trinidad and Tobago | 1953 | Trinidad and Tobago | Alleged Communist ties |
| Claudia Jones | Black Nationalist and political activist | Trinidad and Tobago | 1955 | United Kingdom | Deported under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 for being a Communist, granted asylum in the United Kingdom |
| Konrāds Kalējs | Latvian soldier | Latvia | 1994 | Australia | Alleged Nazi collaborator and war criminal during World War II, moved to Canada but was deported from Canada back to Australia in 1997 |
| Herman W. Lang | Nazi German spy | Germany | 1950 | West Germany | Espionage-related convictions |
| Karl Linnas | Chief of Tartu Nazi concentration camp | Estonia | 1987 | Soviet Union | Nazi war criminal |
| Lucky Luciano | Organized crime boss | Italy United States | 1946 | Italy | Pandering, operating a massive prostitution ring |
| Peter Lundin | Serial killer | Denmark | 1999 | Denmark | First-degree murder-related charges, one of whom was his mother |
| Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook | Hamas leader | Jordan | 1997 | Jordan | Involvement with Hamas |
| Charles Mowbray | Anarcho-communists, trade unionist | United Kingdom | | United Kingdom | |
| Oliver O'Grady | Former Roman Catholic priest | Ireland | 2001 | Ireland | Rape, molestation and abuse of children convictions in California |
| Vicky Peláez | Spy | Peru | 2010 | Russia | Worked as an unregistered foreign agent for Russia, agreed to deportation in exchange for the U.S. government dropping the more serious charge of money laundering |
| Charles Ponzi | Fraudster | Italy | 1934 | Italy | Fraud charges, created the Ponzi scheme |
| Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh | Public speaker, godman, mystic | India | 1985 | India | Immigration violations |
| Rosaura Revueltas | Stage and film actress | Mexico | 1954 | Mexico | Illegal entrance, deported during filming of Salt of the Earth |
| Alphonso Sgroia | Neapolitan Camorra gangster, hitman | Italy | | Italy | Numerous murder convictions |
| Heinz Spanknöbel | Pro-Nazi Friends of New Germany activist, spy | Germany | 1933 | Germany | Failure to register as a foreign agent |
| Mollie Steimer | Anarchy activist | Russia | 1921 | Russian SFSR | Unknown |
| Tsien Hsue-shen | Scientist, aerospace engineer | China | 1955 | China | Accused of being a communist sympathizer |
| John Turner | anarchist communist shop steward | United Kingdom England | 1903 | United Kingdom England | First person deported from the United States for violating the 1903 Anarchist Exclusion Act |
| Tim Maia | Soul singer | Brazil | 1963 | Brazil | Marijuana possession charges |
| Ernst Zündel | German neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier | Germany | 2005 | Germany | Deported subsequently from Canada |