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  • Raid on illegals dismays Obama backers

    02/26/2009 8:16:35 AM PST · by Nachum · 20 replies · 907+ views
    Washingtion Times ^ | 2/26/09 | Stephen Dinan
    Rights groups see broken 'commitment' on illegals policy Immigrant rights groups blasted President Obama on Wednesday for breaking what they called his "personal commitment" to change Bush-era immigration raids after U.S. authorities raided an engine machine shop in Washington state and detained illegal immigrants. The Obama administration itself seemed taken aback by the raid by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano vowing to Congress that she would "get to the bottom of this."
  • Immigrant detention plan dismays critics

    06/24/2006 12:35:05 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 21 replies · 691+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 6/24/06 | David Crary - ap
    NEW YORK - The sweeping immigration bills in Congress would add many thousands of beds to the patchwork network of detention facilities that hold illegal immigrants and asylum-seekers — places that critics say are over-costly and under-regulated. Already, activists say, far too many nonthreatening people are held for too long in demoralizing conditions. "I'm not against homeland security," said Edward Neepaye, a pastor and human-rights campaigner from Liberia who was detained in New Jersey for four months. "But the greatest nation on earth must come up with a remedy that accords immigrants some respect, rather than throwing them in jail...