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“When the iron door was opened, sounds peculiar to jails and prisons poured into my ears — the screams, the metallic clanging, officers’ keys clinking. Some of the women noticed me and smiled warmly or threw up their fists in gestures of solidarity”

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The INS is holding immigrants in filthy, overcrowded jails across the country — with no rights, no charges, and no relief in sight

‘Imprisoned men and women are the drivers of a multibillion-dollar shadow economy: its laborers and its prey’