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Detention Facility for Immigrants Criticized

posted: February 22, 2007

Organizations Laud DHS Effort to Keep Families Together but Call Center a 'Prison-Like Institution.'
The center, which the DHS opened last May, is an unacceptable method "for addressing the reality of the presence of families in our immigration system," says a report written by the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, in New York, and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, in Baltimore, and scheduled for release Thursday.

The Washington Post, by Sylvia Moreno