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round up

verb

  1. to gather (animals, suspects, etc) together

    to round ponies up

  2. to raise (a number) to the nearest whole number or ten, hundred, or thousand above it Compare round down

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. the act of gathering together livestock, esp cattle, so that they may be branded, counted, or sold

  2. any similar act of collecting or bringing together

    a roundup of today's news

  3. a collection of suspects or criminals by the police, esp in a raid

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Idioms and Phrases

Collect or gather in a body, as in We'll have to round up some more volunteers for the food drive, or The police rounded up all the suspects. This term comes from the West, where since the mid-1800s it has been used for collecting livestock by riding around the herd and driving the animals together. By about 1875 it was extended to other kinds of gathering together.
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But it seems there is more going on here than rounding up undocumented immigrants and terrorizing their families.

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Miller recently demanded a daily quota of 3,000 arrests per day of immigrants by ICE and then sold it as rounding up the “most dangerous criminals” threatening the country.

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The raid at the car wash, and similar ones across Los Angeles, represent a significant escalation in the White House's strategy to round up and deport undocumented migrants.

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ICE agents stake out immigration hearings for people with refugee status and round up people here with work or student visas for minor offenses like speeding tickets, all to get the numbers up.

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Or maybe just provide a familiar face to help normalize rounding up people from their workplaces and off the street and sending in the National Guard when this doesn’t appear to be happening smoothly enough.

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