Benjamin, Jody A.

'96 Reform Law Lets INS Cast a Wide Net / Jody A, Benjamin. - Sun-Sentinel, 2001. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2002. Article 9. Environment, 1522-3205; .

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002. Originally Published: '96 Reform Law Lets INS Cast a Wide Net, April 22, 2001; pp. 1A+.

"[Donovan] Williams, a 25-year legal U.S. resident, is in jail in a remote North Florida county, facing deportation, although he hasn't been charged with a crime. He is one of thousands caught in the wide-sweeping net thrown by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which has been working to rid the country of immigrants with felony criminal records under a reform law passed in 1996." (SUN-SENTINEL) The author attributes overflowing INS detention centers to the success of the reform law and reveals that county jails consequently hold the responsibility of housing criminal immigrants.

1522-3205;


United States. Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, 1996.
United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service.


Criminals.
Detention of persons.
Emigration and immigration law.
Immigrants.
Jails.
Judicial review.

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