dragnet

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Plus, home security cameras enter their dragnet era and a Stanford student’s matchmaking algorithm takes over campus.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

Both men were assigned to Operation Metro Surge, an immigration enforcement dragnet launched in December that sent scores of armed and masked agents across the city.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2026

Asylum-seekers, refugees, and even Abrego Garcia, who had been issued a protection known as withholding of removal specifically prohibiting his being sent to El Salvador, have been swept up in the dragnet.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2025

Keep the advice in mind, and you might avoid being swept up in any future dragnet.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2023

The dragnet of the manhunters eventually rounded up more than one hundred suspects.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson