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That's actually "banishment" or as you said, "expulsion"...but it's not "deportation". Deportation is a legal process, that does imply you get sent back to where you came from. It has never meant being sent to prison in a country you've never been to.
What Trump is doing, is definitely closer to human trafficking than anything else. There is a profit motive behind it.
It can be a legal process, and it may return you to your place of origin. Those aren't requirements though. Yeah, it's how the word is typically used and understood, but it is not strictly required.
I do agree we need to use more precise language here though, and deportation isn't it. It does technically fall under the definition of deportation, but it isn't as descriptive as it should be.
Some of my ancestors suffered through the Expulsion of the Acadians and that's widely referred to as a deportation, despite most Acadians not being "sent back where they came from".
I'm not sure your definition of deportation is widely accepted. None of the dictionaries I consulted mention any implications of deportations specifically referring to sending people to their country of origin.
My point was that deportation is a legal process. What Trump is doing, is bypassing that legal process altogether.