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round up
verb
to gather (animals, suspects, etc) together
to round ponies up
to raise (a number) to the nearest whole number or ten, hundred, or thousand above it Compare round down
noun
the act of gathering together livestock, esp cattle, so that they may be branded, counted, or sold
any similar act of collecting or bringing together
a roundup of today's news
a collection of suspects or criminals by the police, esp in a raid
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
But it seems there is more going on here than rounding up undocumented immigrants and terrorizing their families.
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.
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.
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.
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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