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Refugees Remain in Taylor Prison

posted: April 12, 2007

...Furthermore, as Michelle Brané, the director of the WCRWC's Detention and Asylum Program, pointed out in testimony before Congress less than a month ago, immigration violations are civil offenses, not criminal ones. Yet DHS arrests more than 1.6 million undocumented people each year in this country, of whom more than 230,000 are detained.

The Austin Chronicle, by Diana Welch