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Law enforcement has the civil arrest warrant that authorizes them to detain the patient who is still refusing treatment. – The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There need to be stringent measures taken in relation to this gang of spies, murderers and terrorists, this is treason. All these people related to such organizations, should be prosecuted a traitors. This is a matter of honor to detain the heads of these organizations no matter where they are. – Andrei Isaev	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Government must either :( 1) detain them,( 2) return them to a contiguous foreign nation, or( 3) parole them into the United States on an individualized, case-by-case basis, these options operate in a hydraulic relationship : When it is not possible for the Government to comply with the statutory mandate to detain inadmissible aliens pending further proceedings, it must resort to one or both of the other two options in order to comply with the detention requirement to the greatest extent possible. – Samuel Alito	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The Executive has long exercised discretion to choose how best to allocate limited resources by prioritizing which noncitizens to take into custody and remove, what procedures to use to pursue removal, and whom to detain during the removal process. – Elizabeth Prelogar	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I hope for a safe passage back for Brittney. Again, you know, not knowing all the particulars, I know it’s not right for them to detain her, i don’t even think we know where she is, I’m sure the State Department does, but there’s still very little information that’s coming out of Russia right now. That’s what’s a little bit disturbing. – Reggie Miller	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The interstate task force on illegal guns is an important first step. But we must also address bail reform and our pre-trial detention system, new York is the only state in the country that does not allow a judge to detain a defendant who poses an immediate threat to the community. Other states, as well as the federal government, allow judges to consider a defendant’s dangerousness. – Eric Adams	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What's taught to police recruits is,' Detain both, ascertain the facts, proceed,' in my experience, you would see both the citizen making the arrest and the person arrested both detained and the citizen would be compelled to give a statement with regard to what he or she saw. – Thomas Aveni	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The evidence shows overwhelmingly that Travis McMichael honestly and lawfully attempted to detain Ahmaud Arbery according to the law and shot and killed Travis McMichael in self-defense. – Bob Rubin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We do understand that the suspect had bruises on his hands and cuts on his face, those were just a number of things that I think gave them enough credible information to detain this guy. – Daryl Washington	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's a lot like a hotel chain. You know ERO can tell how many beds are open at a current facility, and then the people in charge of that aircraft will reach out to the office and say, 'You know what, you have a hundred beds open, we’re going to send you a hundred illegal aliens,' what's currently happening now at the headquarters level, which again has never really taken place in the past, they're actually going through the detain dockets at these facilities and picking out cases they want released to clear out beds so they can ship them more illegal aliens. – Former ICE official Thomas Feeley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Now, whether or not they're going to summarily execute, detain or' rehabilitate' people remains to be seen, i think because they have become so attentive to media and PR, they might take an approach similar to what the Chinese government is doing by putting Uyghurs in reeducation camps. – Douglas London	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Given the unique needs of this population, we will not detain individuals known to be pregnant, postpartum, or nursing unless release is prohibited by law or exceptional circumstances exist. – Tae Johnson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
These actions by the regime to capture and detain opposition leaders also have the purpose of creating a chilling effect for the citizenry. The common citizen has to wonder if that's how they treat Maradiaga, Cristiana Chamorro, Arturo Cruz and others, how much more can they do against the average citizen that doesn't have as big an exposure. – Berta Valle	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Nobody had any type of human emotion or sympathy for this dying man gasping for his last breaths, and then you detain him worse than a caged animal. Not only for Columbus, Ohio, I'm saying this for all the police forces across this land. Your hunting season is over. – Alvin Williams	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Why don't they show a video? Why don't they show a photo during my time in prison showing that I was well fed and not beaten. The cameras were working 24 hours, i am a citizen of Kazakhstan, what right did they have to detain me for a year and a half? – Gulbakhar Jalilova	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Even if the number of border crossings doesn't go back up in the fall, all this (new rule) would enable them to do is to detain a relatively small percentage of the arriving families for longer. – Kevin Landy	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Given thatmigration is not a crime but rather an administrative violation, we simply detain them and turn them over to the [Mexican immigration] authorities. – Luis Cresencio Sandoval	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
This stark and increasing shift to more vulnerable populations, combined with the overwhelming numbers, and inadequate capacity to detain families and children at ICE and Health and Human Services, respectively, is creating a humanitarian crisis. – Kevin McAleenan	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Mexican governments decision to detain as many migrants as possible, after President Trump put pressure on them to do so, has made it clear just how many third-country nationals from outside Central America are actually in the country. – Andrew Selee	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We cannot allow racist and armed vigilantes to kidnap and detain people seeking asylum, we urge you to immediately investigate this atrocious and unlawful conduct. – The ACLU	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Today, legal loopholes significantly hinder the Department's ability to appropriately detain and promptly remove family units that have no legal basis to remain in the country, this rule addresses one of the primary pull factors for illegal immigration and allows the federal government to enforce immigration laws as passed by Congress. – Kirstjen Nielsen	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This is narrower than I anticipated, politically, this allows the administration to assert that it wants to detain families indefinitely -- but a court won't let them do it. – Cornell Law	Found on CNN 5 years ago
What I'm asking Congress to do is to give us a third option, which we have been requesting since last year, the legal authority to detain and promptly remove families together as a unit. We have to be able to do this. This is the only solution to the border crisis. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We need Congress to fully fund our ability to hold families together through the immigration process. And until these loopholes are closed by Congress, it is not possible as a matter of law to detain and remove whole family units who arrive illegally in the United States. – Kirstjen Nielsen	Found on CNN 5 years ago

Law enforcement has the civil arrest warrant that authorizes them to detain the patient who is still refusing treatment.

– The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There need to be stringent measures taken in relation to this gang of spies, murderers and terrorists, this is treason. All these people related to such organizations, should be prosecuted a traitors. This is a matter of honor to detain the heads of these organizations no matter where they are.

– Andrei Isaev

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Government must either :( 1) detain them,( 2) return them to a contiguous foreign nation, or( 3) parole them into the United States on an individualized, case-by-case basis, these options operate in a hydraulic relationship : When it is not possible for the Government to comply with the statutory mandate to detain inadmissible aliens pending further proceedings, it must resort to one or both of the other two options in order to comply with the detention requirement to the greatest extent possible.

– Samuel Alito

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Executive has long exercised discretion to choose how best to allocate limited resources by prioritizing which noncitizens to take into custody and remove, what procedures to use to pursue removal, and whom to detain during the removal process.

– Elizabeth Prelogar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I hope for a safe passage back for Brittney. Again, you know, not knowing all the particulars, I know it’s not right for them to detain her, i don’t even think we know where she is, I’m sure the State Department does, but there’s still very little information that’s coming out of Russia right now. That’s what’s a little bit disturbing.

– Reggie Miller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The interstate task force on illegal guns is an important first step. But we must also address bail reform and our pre-trial detention system, new York is the only state in the country that does not allow a judge to detain a defendant who poses an immediate threat to the community. Other states, as well as the federal government, allow judges to consider a defendant’s dangerousness.

– Eric Adams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What's taught to police recruits is,' Detain both, ascertain the facts, proceed,' in my experience, you would see both the citizen making the arrest and the person arrested both detained and the citizen would be compelled to give a statement with regard to what he or she saw.

– Thomas Aveni

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The evidence shows overwhelmingly that Travis McMichael honestly and lawfully attempted to detain Ahmaud Arbery according to the law and shot and killed Travis McMichael in self-defense.

– Bob Rubin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We do understand that the suspect had bruises on his hands and cuts on his face, those were just a number of things that I think gave them enough credible information to detain this guy.

– Daryl Washington

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's a lot like a hotel chain. You know ERO can tell how many beds are open at a current facility, and then the people in charge of that aircraft will reach out to the office and say, 'You know what, you have a hundred beds open, we’re going to send you a hundred illegal aliens,' what's currently happening now at the headquarters level, which again has never really taken place in the past, they're actually going through the detain dockets at these facilities and picking out cases they want released to clear out beds so they can ship them more illegal aliens.

– Former ICE official Thomas Feeley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Now, whether or not they're going to summarily execute, detain or' rehabilitate' people remains to be seen, i think because they have become so attentive to media and PR, they might take an approach similar to what the Chinese government is doing by putting Uyghurs in reeducation camps.

– Douglas London

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Given the unique needs of this population, we will not detain individuals known to be pregnant, postpartum, or nursing unless release is prohibited by law or exceptional circumstances exist.

– Tae Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These actions by the regime to capture and detain opposition leaders also have the purpose of creating a chilling effect for the citizenry. The common citizen has to wonder if that's how they treat Maradiaga, Cristiana Chamorro, Arturo Cruz and others, how much more can they do against the average citizen that doesn't have as big an exposure.

– Berta Valle

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Nobody had any type of human emotion or sympathy for this dying man gasping for his last breaths, and then you detain him worse than a caged animal. Not only for Columbus, Ohio, I'm saying this for all the police forces across this land. Your hunting season is over.

– Alvin Williams

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Why don't they show a video? Why don't they show a photo during my time in prison showing that I was well fed and not beaten. The cameras were working 24 hours, i am a citizen of Kazakhstan, what right did they have to detain me for a year and a half?

– Gulbakhar Jalilova

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Even if the number of border crossings doesn't go back up in the fall, all this (new rule) would enable them to do is to detain a relatively small percentage of the arriving families for longer.

– Kevin Landy

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Given thatmigration is not a crime but rather an administrative violation, we simply detain them and turn them over to the [Mexican immigration] authorities.

– Luis Cresencio Sandoval

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This stark and increasing shift to more vulnerable populations, combined with the overwhelming numbers, and inadequate capacity to detain families and children at ICE and Health and Human Services, respectively, is creating a humanitarian crisis.

– Kevin McAleenan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The Mexican governments decision to detain as many migrants as possible, after President Trump put pressure on them to do so, has made it clear just how many third-country nationals from outside Central America are actually in the country.

– Andrew Selee

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We cannot allow racist and armed vigilantes to kidnap and detain people seeking asylum, we urge you to immediately investigate this atrocious and unlawful conduct.

– The ACLU

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Today, legal loopholes significantly hinder the Department's ability to appropriately detain and promptly remove family units that have no legal basis to remain in the country, this rule addresses one of the primary pull factors for illegal immigration and allows the federal government to enforce immigration laws as passed by Congress.

– Kirstjen Nielsen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is narrower than I anticipated, politically, this allows the administration to assert that it wants to detain families indefinitely -- but a court won't let them do it.

– Cornell Law

Found on CNN
5 years ago

What I'm asking Congress to do is to give us a third option, which we have been requesting since last year, the legal authority to detain and promptly remove families together as a unit. We have to be able to do this. This is the only solution to the border crisis.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We need Congress to fully fund our ability to hold families together through the immigration process. And until these loopholes are closed by Congress, it is not possible as a matter of law to detain and remove whole family units who arrive illegally in the United States.

– Kirstjen Nielsen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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