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kidnapped

adjective as in abducted

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Citing a string of incidents in which masked criminals posing as immigration officers robbed and kidnapped victims, the FBI recently issued a memo suggesting agents clearly identify themselves while they’re in the field.

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In Florida, a man pretending to be an ICE agent kidnapped a woman who was in the process of becoming a U.S. citizen.

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“I want our people to be able to walk the streets without getting kidnapped,” she said, adding that she believed the measure would allow Democrats a chance at fighting back against policies that she said had sown terror in her community.

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He and his wife, Rebecca Haro, 41, reported that their son was kidnapped after someone attacked her in a Yucaipa parking lot on Aug. 14.

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Dympna Kerr's brother Columba McVeigh was just 19 when he was kidnapped by the IRA on 1 November 1975 and was never seen again.

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