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Northern VA-Profit-making venture for huge immigrant "detention center"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Southern Exposure Wednesday, October 08, 2008 As immigrations sweeps overwhelm detention systems, some private companies look to benefit This week?s large-scale immigration raid at Columbia Farms, a chicken processing plant near Greenville, S.C, where more than 300 were arrested, is just the latest in a stepped-up federal enforcement effort that has resulted in the deportation of thousands of illegal workers in recent months, reports the L.A. Times. The disruption to families and communities remains a huge issue. Alternet reports this week that Northern Virginia is one of the places where the immigration debate has been the most heated. With aggressive local policies such as ones requiring law enforcement to inquire about the immigration status of people who are arrested, the Latino population in the city of Manassas and Prince William County has plummeted...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 09, 2008 (boomark / email).