Officials did not reveal precisely how many detainees were released or where the releases took place, but immigrants’ advocates around the country have been reporting that hundreds of detainees were freed in numerous locations , including Hudson County, N.J.; Polk County, Texas; Broward County, Fla.; and New Orleans; and from centers in Arizona, Alabama, Georgia and New York. ...NYT
This is an unprecedented move, done in anticipation of the sequester kicking in on Friday. The former detainees will, it is said, be kept on the books, monitored. The cases against them have not been dropped.
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