Sentence examples for cannot detain from inspiring English sources

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And yet there are circumstances in which you cannot try them, you cannot detain them and you cannot deport them.

None of the men sought by Scotland Yard has been arrested as the force cannot detain people over alleged offences outside the UK.

He could also appear before a judge as early as Saturday because Belgian police cannot detain suspects for more than 24 hours without a hearing.

The settlement also includes an important check on racial profiling: an acknowledgment that state and local police cannot detain anyone merely on suspicion of being in the country illegally.

Some of the criminals the Globe wrote about had entered the United States legally, and had been released because the government cannot detain immigrants indefinitely and because the countries they came from refused to take them back.

That does not mean the US cannot detain suspected terrorists, al-Qaida or otherwise, captured outside those areas, as membership in a designated terrorist organisation is a violation of the criminal law of the US and most likely also of the individual's native country.

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If the government cannot safely detain the most vulnerable noncitizens, it should not detain them at all.

It says that officers cannot temporarily detain someone suspected of trespassing, unless the officer reasonably believes the person should not be there.

In an earlier response, Gorsuch referenced the 2001 Supreme Court case Zadvydas v Davis, which found that the government cannot indefinitely detain an undocumented immigrant.

Protected immigrants are allowed to work legally and cannot be detained or deported.

The notion that dangerous insurgents cannot be detained for more than a few hours is ludicrous.

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