Detention isolates illegal immigrants

“Illegal immigrants held in alien detention centers are isolated from the world, a new report says.

The illegals cannot reach their families or their lawyers because of a faulty telephone system, according to a new Government Accountability Office report released Friday.

The GAO found that over a 12-month period starting in November 2005, phones weren’t working properly in 16 of 17 alien detention centers around the country that use pro bono telephone systems. In June of 2006, only 35 percent of phone-calls out of the detention system were successful and the percentage was never above 74. “

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