take into custody
Example Sentences
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The bill would require immigration agents to take into custody people who have been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny or shoplifting.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2025
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 said federal authorities “shall take into custody any alien” convicted of certain crimes, some serious and some minor, “when the alien is released.”
From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2019
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
Commissioners were sent down to Enfield Chase, with directions to search for that undiscoverable house, to make thorough investigation of it, and to take into custody every individual therein.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
