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Feds Plan to Deport 13,000 Inmates from Rikers: Immigration Advocacy Groups

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

In yet another revelation, immigrant advocates say immigration authorities have begun deportation proceedings against an estimated 13,000 inmates held at the Rikers Island penal complex in New York since 2004. Disclosing it to the media, a coalition of advocacy group says they have obtained the data through a Freedom of ...