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ICE PAYING IMMIGRANT DETAINEES $1 A DAY FOR WORK

By Greg Siskind

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The Houston Chronicle has run a report showing Immigration and Customs Enforcement is paying detained immigrants in Houston detention centers $1 per day for performing work such as cleaning, doing laundry, washing dishes, working as barbers, working in the medical clinic and more. 11,000 detainees participated in the Houston work program over the last year. ICE insists the program is voluntary, but some are seeing an irony: ?Why can the U.S. government hire undocumented immigrants? And not only hire them, but get a day?s work for a dollar?? said Brittney Nystrom, senior legal advisor at the National Immigration Forum, an...

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on April 02, 2009 (boomark / email).

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