take into custody
Example Sentences
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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
It said a Briton and a Croatian had been take into custody but that it could provide no further details due to the preliminary nature of the investigation.
From Reuters • Dec. 14, 2021
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 was clear, he wrote, that Congress had required the secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody immigrants released from criminal custody even if years had passed in the meantime.
From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2019
But the power to hold in custody is utterly nugatory, if there be no power to take into custody.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various
