http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/us...NTFAM_BRF.html
The last remaining families have been moved from a former Central Texas
prison that had held immigrant children and their parents. Advocates say the
few remaining families left the T. Don Hutto facility in Taylor on Thursday.
The facility will now house only female detainees. More women are expected
to arrive in the next week. Federal officials announced last month that the
Hutto facility would no longer hold the families of illegal immigrants. Instead,
they will be detained at the much-smaller Berks Family Residential Center in
Leesport, Pa. Hutto opened as a family detention center in 2006.
Detained immigrants could be categorized by risk
The Associated Press - Suzanne Gamboa - Oct 6, 2009
The agency has completed one of the reforms announced in August,
removing families from T. Don Hutto detention center, a former prison in central Texas. ...
Old hotels and nursing homes to house undocumented News 8 Austin
Feds propose alternative housing for illegal immigrants KHOU
US: Act on Immigration Detention Reform Reuters AlertNet
Feds limit Ariz. sheriff's crackdown on illegal immigrants - On Deadline - USATODAY.com
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he will continue his controversial "crime
suppression operations" despite a Department of Homeland Security decision
to strip him of authority to arrest suspected illegal immigrants based solely on
their immigration status, the East Valley Tribune reports.
“It’s all politics,” says Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa County.
Arpaio will still have the power to check the immigration status of people
booked by his officers, but not the authority to conduct street patrols
looking for illegal immigrants.
His “crime suppression operations” are saturation patrols in designated areas
where deputies would find illegal immigrants by stopping them for traffic
infractions and minor violations, the paper says.
The Department of Justice and other federal agencies are investigating the
sheriff’s office on accusations of racial profiling during the operations, the
paper says.
Arpaio said he will be able to still conduct the crime sweeps under state
human smuggling laws and an obscure federal law that allows local police to
arrest illegal immigrants.
A spokesman for the Phoenix office of ICE declined to comment until after
pending agreements with the country are signed.