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What’s happening is that the government is creating detention camps all over the country.
PODCAST: HOW A 135-YEAR-OLD LAW LETS INDIA SHUTDOWN THE INTERNETANTHONY GREENSEPTEMBER 2, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThe government has provided limited information, and sometimes a family’s last known address is … a detention center.
MORNING REPORT: BARRIOS FAILED TO DISCLOSE INCOMEVOICE OF SAN DIEGOSEPTEMBER 1, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOFor example, often the last known address provided was an immigration detention center.
BORDER REPORT: THE LINGERING TRAUMA OF FAMILY SEPARATIONMAYA SRIKRISHNANAUGUST 31, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOProsecutors appealed the case, triggering Szutowicz’s current detention.
POLAND’S LGBTQ ACTIVISTS CONFRONT GROWING CRACKDOWNKAELA ROEDERAUGUST 14, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEIn the spring, Alma Migrante and other groups sued to improve safety in migrant detention facilities in Baja California.
BORDER REPORT: ONE MORE WAY THE PANDEMIC IS HURTING ASYLUM-SEEKERSMAYA SRIKRISHNANAUGUST 3, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOThe cause of Haggard's mysterious detention in Rome, and of their own sudden flitting, became at once clear to her.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSThis detention was very vexatious, for we were not only losing a fair wind, but lying in a very exposed situation.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGBy statute and order the Central Authority had authorised compulsory detention for four hours and the exaction of a task of work.
ENGLISH POOR LAW POLICYSIDNEY WEBBI raced upward along the same paths by which Prince Genner had led me to my own detention quarters.
VALLEY OF THE CROENLEE TARBELLOur primary object in proposing detention is neither punishment nor imprisonment.
ENGLISH POOR LAW POLICYSIDNEY WEBBWORDS RELATED TO DETENTION
- accommodation
- apprehension
- appropriation
- bag
- booby trap
- bust
- captivity
- capture
- collar
- commitment
- confinement
- constraint
- crimp
- detention
- drop
- fall
- gaff
- glom
- grab
- heat
- hook
- imprisonment
- incarceration
- mitt
- nab
- nail
- nick
- nip
- pick up
- pickle
- pinch
- preventive custody
- protective custody
- pull
- pull in
- restraining
- run in
- snare
- sweep
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.