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“Now even the FBI, under an administration that has aggressively expanded unconstitutional immigration enforcement, has confirmed that when agents don’t clearly identify themselves, it opens the door for violent impersonators to prey on vulnerable families,” Hernandez said in a statement.

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County supervisors want to bar “predatory” salespeople who they say prey on vulnerable residents seeking benefits from the region’s social services offices.

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"By ignoring the warnings, they allowed him to continue. Promoting him gave him even more students to prey on."

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For decades, scientists suspected that some large bat species prey on small birds during flight.

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"Those industries prey on the fear and anxiety of young men," he says.

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