The parent is technically correct, you're not deported for losing your job on a H1-B. Your permission to remain in the US ends, and presuming that you leave by

The parent is technically correct, you're not deported for losing your job on a H1-B. Your permission to remain in the US ends, and presuming that you leave by the deadline, you are not deported. Deportation is a different legal event. It's a forceful expulsion which occurs because you did something seriously negative like break the law. Deportations are a big deal and a bad thing to have on your record in any country when it comes to your future prospects with that country. To use a super rough analogy it's kind of like an honorable vs dishonorable discharge from the military.