Powers
Presently, staff hold a mixture of powers granted to them by their status as immigration officers and customs officers.
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Famous quotes containing the word powers:
“The powers that be are ordained of God.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in Romans, 13:1.
“The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)