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At a July 31 congressional hearing, ICE official Matthew Albence denied that officials were coercing people into agreeing to deportation.

From Reuters • Aug. 17, 2018

Her parents were coercing her to work six days a week so her earnings would reach the required threshold to sponsor her foreign spouse to come to the UK.

From The Guardian • May 28, 2018

“They were coercing the appraiser and saying, ‘If you can’t bring it in at this value, I’m not going to give you my business,’ ” Velez says.

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2016

Jeanne Smoot, senior counsel for policy and strategy at the Tahirih Justice Center, dismissed those objections, saying that parents oftentimes were coercing their children.

From Washington Times • Feb. 15, 2016

He presented General Johnson with a list of corporations which, he charged, were coercing their workers into company unions in violation of the law.

From Time Magazine Archive