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Detainees Released From Immigration Centers As Budget Cuts Loom

Hundreds of immigrants have been released from detention centers.

The government has not dropped the deportation cases against the immigrants, however: The detainees have been freed on supervised release while their cases continue in court, officials said.

The releases, which have taken place over the past few days, were approved “in order to make the best use of our limited detention resources in the current fiscal climate and to manage our detention population under current congressionally mandated levels,” Gillian M. Christensen, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an arm of the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement. The budget cuts, also called the sequester, are scheduled to take effect Friday.

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  1. jim hea

    February 26, 2013 at 8:58 pm

    Why are Juan Williams and Alen Colmes so hard headed.? Were they both droped on their head .Does stupidity come nateral for them?
    Alen Homo is a sin not a way of life for
    christians Jim