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Returns

Administrative or border-level movements back across the border without a removal order.

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How do DHS, ICE and CBP define and report 'removals' versus 'returns' and 'voluntary departures'?

, and use distinct legal categories—“,” “,” and “”—that differ in formality, consequences, and which agency records them: removals are formal orders that carry reentry consequences and are tracked as ...