BORDER NEWS

Last week a pregnant woman who was at home alone on her ranch with her toddler shot and killed an undocumented immigrant who broke into her home, apparently looking for food.  The shooting occurred about 80 miles northeast of Del Rio, Texas, in an area that has seen numerous similar incidents over the past few years.  According to the local district attorney, the shooting appears to have been in self-defense. 

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The INS is holding nearly 200 Haitians who were rescued at sea last month, a move attorneys say is not fair and is politically motivated.  Most asylum seekers in the Miami INS district are released on bond while their application is pending. The 187 Haitians are not being released, it is believed, because of an order from INS headquarters calling for their continued detention to discourage others from Haiti from attempting to come to the US.  While the law calls for the detention of asylum seekers without documentation, it is up to individual districts whether to release a person.  Many activists are concerned that few of the Haitians will have legal representation in their asylum cases.  In most cases, people apprehended at sea are returned home, but in this case, the unsafe condition of the boat and the large number of people on board led the Coast Guard to bring them to the US.