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Coast Guard has interdicted more than 6,100 Haitians trying to reach the United States by sea, a huge increase from recent years.

From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2022

The Coast Guard interdicted 49 Cubans in fiscal 2020, but has interdicted 554, a tenfold increase, so far in fiscal 2021.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2021

The commonwealth’s attorney’s office in Richmond has interdicted nine people since 2007.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2018

Had she not thus urged me, in obedience to my lord's commands I should have been obliged to go alone, he having taken some wild antipathy to Miss Egerton whose company he has interdicted.

From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Porter, Jane

The government at Washington has interdicted the usual exchange of newspapers, for the present.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp