How to Use detainer in a Sentence

detainer

noun
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  • And the practice is Border Patrol places a detainer on them.
    — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The officers were instructed to not be involved in the service of the detainer, but to stand by from a distance to keep the peace if necessary.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 23 July 2019
  • The jail declined one detainer request during that time span.
    — Everton Bailey Jr., OregonLive.com, 7 May 2018
  • If none of those happen, the landlord can sue for unlawful detainer.
    — Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2022
  • If the city had honored ICE's detainer request, his victim would be alive today.
    — USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2020
  • If the city had honored ICE’s detainer request, his victim would be alive today.
    — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The second suspect now also has a detainer for the Alabama charges.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 30 June 2023
  • The detainer wasn’t honored, but ICE arrested him at his home weeks later.
    — Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2018
  • If all the detainers get lifted, these cases won’t be resolved because people would fight [their cases] from the street.
    — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • To address that, detainers ask that these people be held for up to an additional 48 hours.
    — Caitlin Dickerson, The Seattle Times, 21 Aug. 2017
  • That decision sparked a ripple effect in the state, causing jails and police to no longer agree to such civil detainers.
    — oregonlive.com, 11 June 2019
  • Marshal Marty Keely said the agency is in possession of a receipt that the detainer notices were signed and marked received by a deputy that day.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The detainer will explain in English and Spanish that your answer must be in a proper legal format and that a letter or a phone call are not enough.
    — Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • An unlawful detainer action is for a matter of there being no rental agreement, there’s no rent to be paid.
    — Bill Zimmerman, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 May 2018
  • The Department of Justice defends the use of detainer requests.
    — Steve Leblanc, The Seattle Times, 28 May 2017
  • Then, based on the detainer, he would be transferred to ICE custody and take his case through immigration court, according to Cutrell.
    — David Shortell and Chris Boyette, CNN, 20 June 2017
  • Forestal said the federal government pays the jail $72 per day to hold a person through an ICE detainer request.
    — Natalia E. Contreras, The Indianapolis Star, 5 May 2021
  • In Maryland, there are four types of eviction cases: failure to pay, tenant holding over, breach of lease and wrongful detainer.
    — Billy Jean Louis, baltimoresun.com, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The feds say that more than 60 of the people arrested were transferred into federal custody via this type of detainer.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Once a detainer is lodged, the possibility of bail is revoked.
    — Maura Ewing, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
  • One way for law enforcement to assist in the task is to comply with immigration detainers.
    — Ryan Martin, Indianapolis Star, 11 Feb. 2018
  • An unlawful detainer starts the formal court process for an eviction, which can end up on a person’s record and be viewed by potential landlords.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 9 May 2024
  • The city has asked ICE to get a judicial order to enforce such detainers, a step in the process the Trump administration refuses to follow.
    — Chris Brennan, Philly.com, 5 July 2018
  • He was released when city officials did not honor an ICE detainer.
    — Jeff Gammage, Philly.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The source also said ICE has placed a detainer on Fuentes, which is a request he eventually be handed over to the agency for removal proceedings.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 13 July 2022
  • Dallas office both have a federal detainer agreement with the jail, county records show.
    — Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2022
  • When the case was called, a court audio recording captured Joseph, the defense attorney and the prosecutor speaking at sidebar about the ICE detainer.
    — Carma Hassan and Holly Yan, CNN, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Texas claims Biden encouraged federal agents to drop the detainer requests, leaving it up to state prison officials to decide whether to hold or release them.
    — Bloomberg.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Baltimore County did not honor ICE detainers previously, but recently reached a compromise to provide notice before releasing someone with a detainer.
    — Maxine Streicher, Baltimore Sun, 8 July 2024
  • Such detainers are requests from federal immigration authorities to state or local law enforcement agencies for notification before a removable noncitizen is released from their custody.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 2 July 2024

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