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On Lync, the bureau’s internal chat system, she said she felt sorry for the man she had helped take into custody.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2023

He pointed to a provision adopted by Congress in 1996 that said federal authorities “shall take into custody any alien” with an “aggravated felony” in their past.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2022

But it is not clear how many people ICE might choose to take into custody, and the agency did not immediately clarify.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2021

It says the attorney general “shall take into custody any alien” who has committed certain offenses “when the alien is released” from state or local custody.

From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2019

He could not take into custody an honorable gentleman merely on suspicion.

From The Unpublishable Memoirs by Rosenbach, A. S. W.




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