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What does it mean? Arriago? The mexican judicial system uses this term.

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arraigo sm

-1 (Bot) rooting de fácil arraigo easily rooted

-2 (=bienes) land, real estate hombre de arraigo man of property

-3 [+de creencia etc] deep-seatedness de mucho o viejo arraigo deep-rooted

-4 (=influencia) hold, influence tener arraigo to have influence

-5 orden de arraigo (Cono Sur, Méx) restriction order

I wonder if it is a "restraining order" in English. (orden de restricción)

as it pertains to house arrest, etc.

immigration hold

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maybe you need "arraigo", to generate roots in some place.

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I asked a similar question a few weeks ago, because I kept reading in Mexican publications the forms of the verb "arraigar" in conjunction with narco traffic. The general conclusion was a meaning along the lines of "to detain" or, as gfreed has suggested, "to restrain".

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