Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The withholding of property from its rightful owner.
- noun The holding of a person in custody, especially under a writ authorizing continued custody for the purposes of making the person available to other authorities to answer other charges.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who withholds; one who detains, stops, or prevents from proceeding.
- noun In law:
- noun In law, the fact of being detained or held in custody: as, a writ of habeas corpus may issue to inquire into the detainer of a prisoner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who detains.
- noun The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law.
- noun A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law The right to keep a person, or a person's
goods orproperty , against hiswill . A type ofcustody .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The detainer is a request that a law enforcement agency notify ICE before releasing that person, so that ICE may take over custody.
Arturo Venegas, Jr.: Scapegoating Doesn't Make You Blameless Jr. Arturo Venegas 2012
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A detainer is a request from ICE that the local jail hold the individual in custody for up to 48 hours during which ICE decides whether or not to assume custody of the person and initiate deportation procedures.
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A detainer is a request from ICE that the local jail hold the individual in custody for up to 48 hours during which ICE decides whether or not to assume custody of the person and initiate deportation procedures.
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Rep. 332. tender the pawnee keeps the goods, and they are ftolen, 0wcn '** • die pawnee muftanfwer; for now his property is deter - mined, and he is a wrongful detainer; and he that keeps goods by wrong mull anfwer for them at peril, in all events; for his detainer is the reafon of the lofs.
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Agents check the data for matches and can issue a "detainer" or request to hold the person who has been arrested for 48 hours so that ICE can take them into custody.
Renee Feltz: ICE Races to Expand Police Involvement in Immigration Enforcement Despite Concerns 2010
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ICE put a "detainer," the first step toward deportation, on 280 of them.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local ,dhaley@denverpost.com ( / <b>By Dan Haley</B> / < 2010
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They put a hold, or "detainer," on 3,200 of those inmates who they discover are illegals.
John Lott's Website 2010
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The numbers represent those with a "detainer," inmates who are barred from being released once their time is up so they can be immediately transferred to ICE custody.
unknown title 2009
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In January 2009, a trial judge raised Manuel Fajardo-Santos's original $75,000 bail to $300,000 after a local prosecutor expressed concerns that the federal government could deport Fajardo-Santos before the state had the opportunity to bring him to trial since ICE already had a "detainer" on him.
unknown title 2009
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ICE then reviews the individual's immigration status and decides whether to place a "detainer" on the immigrant.
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