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No Conviction, No Freedom: Immigration Authorities Locked 13,000 In Limbo
January 27, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON — On a single day this past fall, the United States government held 13,185 people in immigration detention who had not been convicted of a crime, with no plans to charge them with one, according to information The Huffington Post obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. Instead, at a cost of roughly 2 million taxpayer dollars per day, the innocent men and women were …
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No Conviction, No Freedom: Immigration Authorities Locked 13,000 In Limbo