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Feds to begin immigration detention makeover

Published on 2009/08/06 by in Uncategorized

Immigration officials are immediately ending the housing of families at a former prison in central Texas as a first step in transforming immigration detentions from a criminal to a civil system. The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, John Morton, says some families will go to Berks Family Detention Center in Pennsylvania. But he also

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The truth behind the Chatham County Resolution that William Gheen does not want you to know

Published on 2009/02/02 by in Uncategorized

This is the text of the resolution passed by the Chatham County NC Board of Commissioners, declining participation in the controversial 287(g) program. These are all valid reasons and completely contrary to what William Gheen of ALIPAC.us is trying convince the voters of NC about.   CHATHAM COUNTY RESOLUTION ON THE FEDERAL IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS

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Hope and Heartbreak in a Small Town

Published on 2008/12/27 by in Uncategorized

Few in this threadbare little mill town gave much thought to the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, the maximum-security jail beside the public ball fields at the edge of town. Even when it expanded and added barbed wire, Wyatt was just the backdrop for Little League games, its name stitched on the caps of the

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Anti-Immigrant Fervor Translates to Terror for Women

Published on 2008/12/27 by in Uncategorized

by: Melissa Nalani Ross, On the Issues Magazine In my work on civil and human rights, especially with immigrant populations, I was contacted recently about a woman without documentation who worked at a fruit stand in the northeast. A male customer approached her and asked if she had any waitressing experience, as he needed servers

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