[Marine Inspector]

INS was the right agency to call. FBI doesn't have any detention centers. Where would they put them? There was no crime committed, so state police would not want to be involved. This was an INS situation.

Your right they should have called the INS, but after calling the INS and getting the response they got, they should have locked them up in a local jail.

That's what the INS does. The majority of INS detainees are in local jails.

[Rita289]

They should have been locked up, but officers would need a "detainer" from INS before that could happen. True, some are detained are in local jails, but there are detention centers contracted by INS to keep the majority of detainees.