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Recent Examples of deputize
This spring, on what the President dubbed Liberation Day, Trump deputized Lutnick to become the public face of his tariff plan.
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Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 22 July 2025
Federal agencies cannot deputize JAGs A current immigration provision, known as the 287(g) program, authorizes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to collaborate with local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws.
—Raquel Aldana, The Conversation, 18 July 2025
Federally deputizing and distracting 700+ local law enforcement agencies in political service to Trump’s war on immigrants and naturalized U.S. citizens is a horribly misguided idea for at least two hugely important reasons.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 July 2025
These agreements, known as 287(g) partnerships, allows ICE to deputize local officers to perform immigration enforcement duties, such as checking individuals’ immigration status, issuing detainers, entering data into ICE’s databases and issuing warrants to begin the deportation process.
—Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 22 July 2025
Federal agencies cannot deputize JAGs A current immigration provision, known as the 287(g) program, authorizes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to collaborate with local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws.
—Raquel Aldana, The Conversation, 18 July 2025
Federally deputizing and distracting 700+ local law enforcement agencies in political service to Trump’s war on immigrants and naturalized U.S. citizens is a horribly misguided idea for at least two hugely important reasons.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 July 2025
These agreements, known as 287(g) partnerships, allows ICE to deputize local officers to perform immigration enforcement duties, such as checking individuals’ immigration status, issuing detainers, entering data into ICE’s databases and issuing warrants to begin the deportation process.
—Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deputize
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Spradlin was the church’s senior pastor from 2011 until the beginning of July, when she was appointed district superintendent for the South District of the United Methodist Church’s Horizon Texas Conference.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Aug. 2025
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The dismissals come as the state’s bar advocates — private attorneys appointed by the court to take on indigent clients when a public defender is not available — continue their ongoing strike for better pay.—
Matthew Medsger,
Boston Herald,
7 Aug. 2025
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At Bournemouth, the club’s structure works in a particular way, where Iraola sees his role as coaching the team and preparing the players, but recruitment is delegated to Tiago Pinto, the club’s president of football operations, and technical director Simon Francis.—
Adam Crafton,
New York Times,
12 Aug. 2025
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This is the realm of managers and supervisors, not doing the work themselves, delegating, but with relatively short leashes to make sure people get done what they are asked to get done in the way they are asked to do them.—
George Bradt,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Deputize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deputize. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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