NATION : Hundreds Freed From INS Center
Hundreds of Central Americans have been released from a Texas detention center over the last week in an apparent policy change, immigrants and refugee advocates said.
“They asked us if we had any family with addresses in the United States, and said we could leave and go to them if we did,” Daniel Salazar, an 18-year-old Nicaraguan who had been in detention about a week, said.
Salazar and two other Nicaraguans walking out of the INS’ Port Isabel Service Processing Center near Port Isabel said they were called in groups of about 40 and told they could leave the Lower Rio Grande Valley without paying the $3,000 bail set when they were detained.
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