Last month we brought you an article about the proposed plan for hubbing all detainees in the INS Central Region based on the country to which they were to be removed. Following pressure from immigrant advocate groups, the INS has backed off the plan and is now going to review it and take further input from immigration practitioners. Many advocates criticized the plan on the basis that it would separate immigrants facing deportation from their families and lawyers. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), who worried that the proposal would violate the due process rights of the detainees by denying them a fair hearing, voiced similar criticism.