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Immigration detention: fastest growing incarceration system in the U.S.

October 06, 2011 (1 min read)

"The arrest, detention and deportation of illegal immigrants is higher than at any time in U.S. history with more than 2.3 million individuals deported in the last five years.  The government's immigration enforcement efforts -- detention -- is now the fastest growing incarceration system in the U.S.  With illegal border crossings down significantly over the past couple of years, enforcement efforts of illegal border crossing has turned more forcefully to the interior and the communities where millions of undocumented immigrants live, once again sparking the debate over comprehensive immigration reform.  "Aqui y Ahora" Correspondent Tifani Roberts tells us how Obama's policy has separated hundreds of thousands of families and how an investigation shows the other side of deportations."

UnivisionNews1, Sept. 29, 2011.