Feds Expanding Prisons for Immigrants
A major roundup is beginning. The feds have a new program in place to detain immigrants facing deportation proceedings.
The nationwide expansion would help security officials hold as many as 8,000 more suspected illegal immigrants a day. The current population of about 22,000 detainees represents the fastest-growing segment of America's federal prison population.
More space is needed, security officials say, for an accelerated effort to round up 400,000 of the estimated 8 million to 11 million illegal immigrants in the country.
The 400,000 are immigrants who have been ordered out of the country by judges but may have failed to comply....The government's goal is to catch and deport all of them within five years.
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