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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Sep. 20, 2007

Unregulated Detention System Puts Immigrants' Lives and Dignity at Risk

Forum Column - By Will Coley - At the close of summer, the lives of two immigrants were publicly and permanently changed in Southern California.

FORUM COLUMN

By Will Coley

      At the close of summer, the lives of two immigrants were publicly and permanently changed in Southern California. Besides both being immigrants from Mexico, they also had a last name in common: Arellano. The differences in what happened to Elvira and Victoria illustrate the priorities of the federal agency charged with enforcing U.S. immigration law, Immigration Customs and Enforcement, in the midst ...

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