Lack of Space Cited for Freeing Detainees
From Times Wire Reports
More than a quarter of non-Mexican illegal immigrants who are caught in south Texas are allowed to stay because the U.S. Border Patrol doesn’t have enough space to detain them, the Houston Chronicle has reported. Of the 12,084 non-Mexican illegal immigrants caught in south Texas between Oct. 1, 1997, and Aug. 31, 3,122 were released there. Most were from Central America.
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