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bemildred

(90,061 posts)
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 09:20 AM Jun 2014

Feds dumping hundreds of undocumented immigrants at Arizona bus stops [View all]

Source: CSM

Tucson, Ariz.

Hundreds of migrants nabbed by the border patrol after illegally crossing the US-Mexico border through Texas have been flown to Arizona and left at Greyhound Bus stations in Tucson and Phoenix during the past month.The practice has drawn criticism from activists on both sides of the illegal immigration debate.

Critics charge that released border-crossers will vanish into the woodwork. Immigrant advocates accuse the federal government of releasing migrants without providing enough basic necessities such as food and water on days that hover around 100 degrees F.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) calls it "another disturbing example of a deliberate failure to enforce border security policies and repair a broken immigration system" in a letter to President Obama.


Read more: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2014/0607/Feds-dumping-hundreds-of-undocumented-immigrants-at-Arizona-bus-stops

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