Who Counts At The Border?

Dahlia Lithwick, Slate: Politics
Wed, 02/27/2019 - 10:21am

A 24-year-old Honduran woman went into early labor and delivered a stillborn baby while she was in custody at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in South Texas last week. The official joint statement from ICE and Customs and Border Protection, released Monday by the Department of Homeland Security, reports that the woman, “whose name and identifying details are being withheld in order to protect her privacy,” was six months pregnant when she was apprehended on Feb.

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  • COUNT definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
    1. verb. When you count, you say all the numbers one after another up to a particular number. He was counting slowly under his breath. [VERB] Brian counted to twenty and lifted his binoculars. [VERB + to] 2. verb. If you count all the things in a group, you add them up in order to find how many there are.
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    verb. uk / kaʊnt / us / kaʊnt / count verb (NUMBER) Add to word list. B1 [ I or T ] to say numbers one after the other in order, or to calculate the number of people or things in a group: The teachers counted the students as they got on to the bus. Count your money carefully to make sure it's all there.
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    1. a. : to indicate or name by units or groups so as to find the total number of units involved : number. Count the pages of the manuscript. b. : to name the numbers in order up to and including. Count ten. c. : to include in a tallying and reckoning. about 100 present, counting children. d. : to call aloud (beats or time units) Count cadence.
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    From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English count1 /kaʊnt/ S2 W3 verb 1 find the total [ transitive] (also count up) to calculate the total number of things or people in a group I was amazed at the number of plants – I counted 147. count (up) how many Count up how many ticks are in each box. 2 say numbers [ intransitive] (also count up) ...
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