HispanicTips » detention center http://www.hispanictips.com Essential Hispanic & Latino News :: Relevant, Trusted, Comprehensive and Useful Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:04:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Native American corporations, particularly an array of Alaska Native Corporations, have become major defense and homeland security contractors – responsible for a wide range of national security operations, including electronic surveillance on the border, running immigrant detention centers, and supplying security and other services in U.S. overseas wars and energy exploitation. http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/06/native-american-corporations-particularly-an-array-of-alaska-native-corporations-have-become-major-defense-and-homeland-security-contractors-%e2%80%93-responsible-for-a-wide-range-of-national-securi/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/06/native-american-corporations-particularly-an-array-of-alaska-native-corporations-have-become-major-defense-and-homeland-security-contractors-%e2%80%93-responsible-for-a-wide-range-of-national-securi/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:32:08 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=66212 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=66212 0 Pobre Pecos, Pobres Presos—Justicia Penal para los Inmigrantes en el Condado de Reeves en Texas http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/10/28/pobre-pecos-pobres-presos%e2%80%94justicia-penal-para-los-inmigrantes-en-el-condado-de-reeves-en-texas/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/10/28/pobre-pecos-pobres-presos%e2%80%94justicia-penal-para-los-inmigrantes-en-el-condado-de-reeves-en-texas/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:24:57 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=65306 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=65306 0 Immigrant Gulag Larger Than Homeland Security’s Detention Centers – The Obama administration is trying to wiggle its way out of the immigration crisis created by the Bush administration without taking any decisive steps to distance itself from its predecessor’s immigration policies and enforcement practices. http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/10/17/immigrant-gulag-larger-than-homeland-securitys-detention-centers/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/10/17/immigrant-gulag-larger-than-homeland-securitys-detention-centers/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:22:28 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/10/17/immigrant-gulag-larger-than-homeland-securitys-detention-centers/ HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=64769 0 DHS Plan To Improve Immigration Detention An Encouraging Step – Due Process, Enforceable Detention Standards And Overhaul Of ICE Enforcement Programs Still Needed http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/10/07/dhs-plan-to-improve-immigration-detention-an-encouraging-step-due-process-enforceable-detention-standards-and-overhaul-of-ice-enforcement-programs-still-needed/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/10/07/dhs-plan-to-improve-immigration-detention-an-encouraging-step-due-process-enforceable-detention-standards-and-overhaul-of-ice-enforcement-programs-still-needed/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:15:28 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=63470 Aggregated by HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=63470 0 NCLR Applauds Introduction of Legislation on Immigration Detention Standards http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/08/04/nclr-applauds-introduction-of-legislation-on-immigration-detention-standards/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/08/04/nclr-applauds-introduction-of-legislation-on-immigration-detention-standards/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:31:26 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=57532 "NCLR (National Council of La Raza), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, praised Senators Robert Menendez (D–NJ), Edward Kennedy (D–MA), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D–NY) for introducing two bills yesterday to address problems in the immigration detention system. Senators Menendez, Kennedy, and Gillibrand introduced the “Protect Citizens and Residents from Unlawful Detention Act (S.1549)” and Senators Menendez and Gillibrand introduced the “Safe Treatment, Avoiding Needless Deaths, and Abuse Reduction in the Detention System Act (S. 1550).” These important pieces of legislation call attention to the urgent need to reform our broken immigration system.

As a result of the indiscriminate rounding up of immigrants and, in some cases, U.S. citizens, the number of people who are held in detention facilities throughout the country has grown tremendously in recent years. The rapid expansion of the detention of immigrants with little oversight is costly to taxpayers and has resulted not only in the unlawful detention of U.S. citizens, but also in the deaths of immigrants.

“NCLR thanks Senators Menendez, Kennedy, and Gillibrand for their strong leadership in addressing needed reforms in the immigration detention system. These conditions clearly indicate the urgency for comprehensive immigration reform that restores dignity and balance to the system, ensuring that our enforcement tactics are sensible, accountable, fair, and humane. The priorities and tactics we choose must not undercut other important laws, values, and goals that have existed in this nation since its founding,” said Janet Murguía, NCLR President and CEO.

The “Protect Citizens and Residents from Unlawful Detention Act” would establish screening mechanisms to ensure that U.S. citizens and vulnerable populations—such as children and pregnant women—who are swept up in immigration enforcement operations are considered for alternatives to detention, advised of their right to counsel, and notified of the immigration charges against them.

The “Safe Treatment, Avoiding Needless Deaths, and Abuse Reduction in the Detention System Act” would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide adequate access to medical care, establish protocols to be followed when immigrants are transferred away from family and counsel, and improve conditions in detention centers. This bill also establishes an alternative to immigration detention which would ensure that people appear at immigration court hearings while redirecting vulnerable populations—such as pregnant and nursing women, the elderly, and asylum seekers—to community-based and cost-saving noncustodial alternatives to detention.

“The American people want commonsense solutions to our broken immigration system, so we welcome the legislation introduced yesterday which will ensure that the treatment of immigrants is aligned with America’s best values and traditions,” concluded Murguía.

For more information, visit www.nclr.org." Aggregated by HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=57532 0 Immigrant Detainee Rights Are Routinely, Systematically Violated, New Report by National Immigration Law Center Finds “A Broken System” is based on 18,000 pages of previously confidential ICE, ABA, and UNHCR reviews of detention centers http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/07/29/immigrant-detainee-rights-are-routinely-systematically-violated-new-report-by-national-immigration-law-center-finds-%e2%80%9ca-broken-system%e2%80%9d-is-based-on-18000-pages-of-previously-confident/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/07/29/immigrant-detainee-rights-are-routinely-systematically-violated-new-report-by-national-immigration-law-center-finds-%e2%80%9ca-broken-system%e2%80%9d-is-based-on-18000-pages-of-previously-confident/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:58:18 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=57156 "Denied access to loved ones, lawyers and basic necessities, men and women within the nation’s immigration detention system find their fundamental rights routinely and systematically violated, according to a report released today by the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), the ACLU of Southern California, and the international law firm of Holland & Knight, LLP. The first nationwide comprehensive report of its kind, “A Broken System: Confidential Reports Reveal Failures in U.S. Detention Centers,” sheds new light on the conditions suffered by hundreds of thousands of people housed in detention centers around the country, and offers policymakers specific recommendations to ameliorate the situation.

“Though the detainees are accused of civil immigration charges, there is nothing civil about our detention centers,” said Karen Tumlin, co–author of the report and a staff attorney at NILC. “These centers, where people are detained for months and often years at a time, often fail to provide people with their fundamental rights: access to loved ones, the basic materials needed to research and prepare their cases, or even a simple explanation of their rights while within the immigrant detention system.”

Added Linton Joaquin, co–author and general counsel at NILC, “The government’s own standards for immigration detention are routinely violated. Such a flagrant disregard for this country’s values for fairness and justice on behalf of the United States government is appalling.”

Though Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) claims to conduct a formal review of each detention facility on a yearly basis, “A Broken System” shows that such reviews carry little enforcement weight, as many of the detention facilities fail to rectify problems identified by ICE’s own inspectors. Even more troubling, the inadequacy of the ICE reviews is demonstrated when they are compared with independent reviews by the American Bar Association (ABA) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) of the same facilities, which often found a greater number and more severe violations in detention centers than was reported by ICE.

For instance, the ABA and UNHCR reviewers found detainees were retaliated against or punished more severely than allowed for minor disciplinary infractions. ICE reviewers, on the other hand, overlooked these serious violations.

Ranjana Natarajan, a report co-author and former ACLU/SC attorney said, “At every level, federal, state and local jails and prisons have legal and binding rules they must abide. But in immigration detention, the government refuses to adopt binding rules. The result is utter disregard for basic humane conditions. Because we don’t have rules, we don’t have accountability.”

The report highlights the importance of having independent monitors of detention centers. In the Kenosha County Detention Center, for example, a UNHCR report found that while men were allowed two daily hours of recreation, women housed in the same facility were denied recreation rights. The following year, ICE inspectors rated that same facility “acceptable,” despite the fact that women were still being denied access to recreation facilities.

“A Broken System” is based on an analysis of hundreds of ICE, ABA and UNHCR detention facility review reports from 2001 through 2005. The reports, which had been withheld from the public, were obtained through discovery in litigation. Although the report is the most comprehensive analysis of its kind, the government withheld a significant number of documents it was ordered to produce. As a result, the violations outlined in the report represent only a fraction of the number of violations that actually occurred but could not be documented.

Christopher Nugent, pro bono senior counsel at Holland & Knight, said, “Though this report provides the most complete picture the public has of this massive system, it is still a sketch. We can, however, determine even more definitively that the immigration detention centers routinely violate the government’s own standards for immigration detention, and based on this information we have made specific policy recommendations to encourage those with the power to change the system to do so.”

The recommendations in the report are based upon thousands of hours of research and analysis of the detention center reviews. Key among them is the proposal that ICE revise its standards for immigration detention to make them judicially enforceable. The report also determines that, given the gross abuses, further expansion of the immigrant detention system should be stopped, and more use should be made of humane alternatives to detention.

The findings from “A Broken System” are particularly timely, as they are released in the wake of a DHS decision to reject the long-standing request of NGOs and the ABA to promulgate regulations that would require immigration detention facilities to adhere to basic standards of care.

This agency statement responds to a petition for rulemaking submitted in January 2007 by dozens of immigrant detainees and advocacy groups in the wake of public reports detailing the humanitarian crisis in the facilities. The name of the case involved in the petition is Families for Freedom v. Napolitano, No. 08-CIV-4056 (DC).

To read “A Broken System,” go to
www.nilc.org/immlawpolicy/arrestdet/A-Broken-System-2009-07.pdf" Aggregated by HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=57156 0 A Voice of Reason & Courage in the Wilderness of Immigration Reform: Congressman Jared Polis (D-Colorado) http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/07/16/a-voice-of-reason-courage-in-the-wilderness-of-immigration-reform-congressman-jared-polis-d-colorado/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/07/16/a-voice-of-reason-courage-in-the-wilderness-of-immigration-reform-congressman-jared-polis-d-colorado/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:51:33 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=56710 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=56710 0 Some 300 women held at immigration detention centers in Arizona face dangerous delays in health care and widespread mistreatment, according to a new study by the University of Arizona, the latest report to criticize conditions at such centers throughout the United States. http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/01/26/some-300-women-held-at-immigration-detention-centers-in-arizona-face-dangerous-delays-in-health-care-and-widespread-mistreatment-according-to-a-new-study-by-the-university-of-arizona-the-latest-repo/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/01/26/some-300-women-held-at-immigration-detention-centers-in-arizona-face-dangerous-delays-in-health-care-and-widespread-mistreatment-according-to-a-new-study-by-the-university-of-arizona-the-latest-repo/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:55:20 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/01/26/some-300-women-held-at-immigration-detention-centers-in-arizona-face-dangerous-delays-in-health-care-and-widespread-mistreatment-according-to-a-new-study-by-the-university-of-arizona-the-latest-repo/ HispanicTips is Essential Hispanic & Latino News & Information
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"I Was A Stranger, Hope for a Hidden World" is the inspirational story of Feliberto Pereira and his life as a modern Good Samaritan. Pereira escaped the persecution of Fidel Castro's 1960 regime aboard a "freedom flight" to America. Knowing firsthand that most refugees arrive with nothing more than the clothes on their backs, Pereira, a U.S. citizen, started a ministry in South Texas assisting refugees in their path to freedom.

Since 1979, what is now Southwest Good Samaritan Ministries has assisted some 20,000 refugees from more than 40 countries -- Muslims, Jews, Christians and atheists. Refugees and those who serve them are welcomed at a five-acre facility built by volunteers called Casa Compasíon (House of Compassion) located three miles from one of the U.S. government's largest immigration detention centers, from which detained refugees are released to Pereira's custody.

Tragically, the book also describes how political asylum is now being lumped together with all forms of immigration and, as a result, asylum as a legal path to freedom appears to be vanishing for hundreds of thousands of people. Since the September 11 attack on the United States, the number of refugees both seeking and being granted political asylum has fallen dramatically.

"I have a place in my heart for all refugees and immigrants," said Pereira. "They are just like you, just like me -- only many are placed by life in circumstances none of us would ever freely choose. Illegal immigration is a problem no country can ignore, but we Americans must distinguish between illegal immigrants seeking a better way of life economically and individuals in need of protection."

In 2007, The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees noted : "More and more asylum seekers are portrayed not as refugees fleeing persecution and entitled to sanctuary, but rather as illegal migrants, potential terrorists, and criminals -- or at a minimum as 'bogus.'"

This book is published by Brown Books. For more information on the book, visit http://www.iwasastranger.org " HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=41397 0 Blogante News Summary – Wednesday – July 16th, 2008 http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/07/16/blogante-news-summary-wednesday-july-16th-2008/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/07/16/blogante-news-summary-wednesday-july-16th-2008/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:39:30 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/07/16/blogante-news-summary-wednesday-july-16th-2008/ Blogante News Essentials --»

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Seattle University law students who interviewed detainees and worked to confirm their stories heard about a wide range of problems, from overcrowding and lack of food and medical attention, to physical and verbal abuse by guards and federal marshals." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=41109 0 Law Students Rush to Meet Needs In Booming Field of Immigration http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/07/10/law-students-rush-to-meet-needs-in-booming-field-of-immigration/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/07/10/law-students-rush-to-meet-needs-in-booming-field-of-immigration/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:43:09 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/07/10/law-students-rush-to-meet-needs-in-booming-field-of-immigration/ "Ann Kim made monthly trips this year to a Richmond area immigrant detention center, trying to free a mentally ill Honduran man. He ended up being deported, but Kim got something out of it: more experience in the burgeoning field of immigration law.

"Immigration is becoming more and more complex, and it's going against immigrants rather than for them," said Kim, 27, a second-generation Korean American who took the Honduran's case as part of her immigration law clinic at American University's Washington College of Law. "There's a great need for lawyers."" HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=40820 0 Why former Mexican migrants are staying home – Tougher border enforcement, jail time, and a slow US economy are causing some Mexicans to reconsider going north for work. http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/24/why-former-mexican-migrants-are-staying-home-tougher-border-enforcement-jail-time-and-a-slow-us-economy-are-causing-some-mexicans-to-reconsider-going-north-for-work/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/24/why-former-mexican-migrants-are-staying-home-tougher-border-enforcement-jail-time-and-a-slow-us-economy-are-causing-some-mexicans-to-reconsider-going-north-for-work/#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:51:00 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/24/why-former-mexican-migrants-are-staying-home-tougher-border-enforcement-jail-time-and-a-slow-us-economy-are-causing-some-mexicans-to-reconsider-going-north-for-work/ "José Balderama spent half a decade in the United States working roofing jobs in Texas. The money he sent home each month went to his wife and four children – a source of income the family expected to count on for many years to come.

But after serving six months at the Eden Detention Center in Texas for getting caught without the proper paperwork, he says he is never going back. "This was six months, next time it could be six years," he says on a recent day in this tiny town tucked in the foothills of the Sierra de Guanajuato mountains. " HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=40417 0 European Union votes to unify rules on detention of migrants http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/19/european-union-votes-to-unify-rules-on-detention-of-migrants/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/19/european-union-votes-to-unify-rules-on-detention-of-migrants/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:40:25 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/19/european-union-votes-to-unify-rules-on-detention-of-migrants/ "European Union lawmakers voted Wednesday to allow countries in the bloc to hold undocumented migrants in detention centers for up to 18 months and ban them from EU territory for five years.

Approved in this medieval French border city, which is home to a significant population of North Africans and Turks, the legislation establishes common rules for expelling foreigners who are detained on EU territory without permission to be there.

Described by critics like Amnesty International as "severely flawed" and an erosion of human rights standards, but by supporters as a balanced approach, the so-called return directive passed in the European Parliament by a vote of 369 to 197, with 106 deputies abstaining." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=40229 0 Cuban immigrants reach Texas after being snatched by gunmen in Mexico http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/19/cuban-immigrants-reach-texas-after-being-snatched-by-gunmen-in-mexico/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/19/cuban-immigrants-reach-texas-after-being-snatched-by-gunmen-in-mexico/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:21:58 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/19/cuban-immigrants-reach-texas-after-being-snatched-by-gunmen-in-mexico/ "Mexican officials said Thursday that at least 18 Cubans have reached Texas more than a week after masked gunmen hijacked an immigration bus in southern Mexico and seized them.

Mexico's Attorney General's Office said in a statement that the U.S. Border Patrol detained the immigrants in Hidalgo County in Texas.

At least six masked gunmen hijacked the bus along a remote jungle highway June 11. They forced seven unarmed immigration agents and two drivers to get off before they fled with 33 Cubans and four Central Americans who were being taken to a detention center for undocumented migrants." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=40226 0 Overcrowding for immigrant detainees to end at Otay facility – San Diego http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/09/overcrowding-for-immigrant-detainees-to-end-at-otay-facility-san-diego/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/09/overcrowding-for-immigrant-detainees-to-end-at-otay-facility-san-diego/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:50:40 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/09/overcrowding-for-immigrant-detainees-to-end-at-otay-facility-san-diego/ "Eighteen months after filing a lawsuit against the Department Of Homeland Security and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of San Diego County has reached a settlement with the hope of ending severe overcrowding at the San Diego Correctional Facility.

In January of last year, the ACLU joined a lawsuit, previously filed in San Diego Federal Court by Isaac Kigondu Kiniti, a Kenyan man who was arrested in May 2004 for immigration violations and has been at the Otay Mesa facility since November of that year.

Kiniti is awaiting a ruling on whether he will have to return to Kenya, but he is resisting going back, claiming that if he goes back, he would be subjected to persecution and torture. " HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=39716 0 Blogante News for Tuesday – June 3rd, 2008 http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/03/blogante-news-for-tuesday-june-3rd-2008/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/03/blogante-news-for-tuesday-june-3rd-2008/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:04:37 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/03/blogante-news-for-tuesday-june-3rd-2008/ Blogante News Essentials --»

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Machu Picchu ‘ransacked 40 years before its discovery’ - new research claims

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Mexico army marches into drug war — again - Troops have been deployed to a greater extent than ever to fight narcotics traffickers. But critics fear the corruption that afflicts the police will envelop the military.

Aurora OKs bigger immigration detention center - The move effectively clears the way for GEO Group Inc. to turn a 400-bed facility into a 1,500-bed center to house illegal immigrants, making it the second-largest detention center in the nation. - Colorado

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HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=39475 0 Aurora OKs bigger immigration detention center – The move effectively clears the way for GEO Group Inc. to turn a 400-bed facility into a 1,500-bed center to house illegal immigrants, making it the second-largest detention center in the nation. – Colorado http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/03/aurora-oks-bigger-immigration-detention-center-the-move-effectively-clears-the-way-for-geo-group-inc-to-turn-a-400-bed-facility-into-a-1500-bed-center-to-house-illegal-immigrants-making-it-the-s/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/03/aurora-oks-bigger-immigration-detention-center-the-move-effectively-clears-the-way-for-geo-group-inc-to-turn-a-400-bed-facility-into-a-1500-bed-center-to-house-illegal-immigrants-making-it-the-s/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:28:27 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/03/aurora-oks-bigger-immigration-detention-center-the-move-effectively-clears-the-way-for-geo-group-inc-to-turn-a-400-bed-facility-into-a-1500-bed-center-to-house-illegal-immigrants-making-it-the-s/ "Eight-year-old Gianella Ramos clutched a protest sign Monday at a City Council meeting, chanting "No to GEO! No to detention!"

She was among 30 protesters who rallied on the steps of the Aurora Municipal Center on Monday and called on the City Council to oppose the planned expansion of an immigration detention center that will more than triple the size of the facility.

"I do this for my mother who is an immigrant," she said." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=39447 0