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Disabled Immigration Detainees Face Deportation

Seeded on Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:45 AM EDT
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excerpt:"For lawyers offering free legal information at large immigration detention centers in remote parts of Texas, the task is difficult enough: coaching hundreds of detainees on how to represent themselves at assembly-line deportation hearings. But the lawyers soon discover a more daunting problem: many detainees are too mentally ill or mentally disabled to understand anything.

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Reply#1 - Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:46 AM EDT
MoCowgirl-1193719

How did they get to the US to begin with if they are so mentally impaired?

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Reply#2 - Thu Apr 1, 2010 3:05 AM EDT
Scott (Scoop) Butki

I dont know. Perhaps they came with family or some other support system. Does it matter?

    #2.1 - Thu Apr 1, 2010 7:07 PM EDT
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