Due to archaic U S drug laws hundreds and thousands of people are sent away from the country each year due to committing minor drug offenses, even if they had served out the term long ago. This has come to light due to a report which was released some days ago by an international advocacy…

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A hunger strike was launched by a group of angry illegal, immigrant detainees at a detention center in the United States in Arizona state last Saturday morning to protest against the death of a detainee – the detainee died last month. The strike also called attention to the inhuman conditions at the facility. A detainee…

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Pressure is building on the Obama administration to enhance or as a last measure, do away with the detention of women and children, and whole families. With the pressure mounting officials of the administration have agreed to let some mothers who are illegal immigrants get release from the detention center. Earlier the very same families…

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The U S Border Patrol has received a complaint from a civil rights group that in a lawsuit which complains that immigrants were illegally held for long periods in freezing, bad weather, in dirty holding cells in Arizona. The lawsuit which was filed on behalf of 3 illegal immigrants who were detained at the Tucson…

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