More immigrants in detention: Tacoma center getting influx - Washington (a must read!)

Posted on: October 2nd, 2006
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Under Operation Reservation Guaranteed, as it is being called, detainees are flown to wherever in the country a bed is available. As part of the operation, Homeland Security has relocated about 700 detainees a week across the country, Mead said.

“Under mounting pressure from Congress and the public to better enforce immigration laws and expel illegal immigrants, Homeland Security is moving to detain every illegal immigrant taken into custody by guaranteeing a bed somewhere in the country ”” anywhere in the country, no matter how far away.

It replaces a practice known as catch and release, in which immigrants picked up in areas with chronic bed shortages were released on the promise they would show up for court later”

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