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297 Illegal Immigrants Sent to Prison in Federal Push

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

May 24, 2008 297 Illegal Immigrants Sent to Prison in Federal Push By JULIA PRESTON NY Times WATERLOO, Iowa ? In temporary courtrooms at a fairgrounds here, 270 illegal immigrants were sentenced this week to five months in prison for working at a meatpacking plant with false documents. The prosecutions, which ended Friday, signal a sharp escalation in the Bush administration?s crackdown on illegal workers, with prosecutors bringing tough federal criminal charges against most of the immigrants arrested in a May 12 raid. Until now, unauthorized workers have generally been detained by immigration officials for civil violations and rapidly deported. The convicted immigrants were among 389 workers detained at the Agriprocessors Inc. plant in nearby Postville in a raid that federal officials called the largest criminal enforcement operation ever carried out by immigration authorities at a workplace...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 23, 2008 (boomark / email).