A high school field trip could result in the deportation of four students to Mexico. The students, from Phoenix, were competing in a science competition in Canada. When they attempted to reenter the US, they were questioned by INS officials who discovered that they had been living in the US unlawfully since they were very small children.
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Last weekend four Pakistani nationals working on a ship docked in New Orleans jumped ship and entered the US without INS permission. Officials said the group was headed for Texas, and they were all arrested a few days later in Waco. There is no evidence that any of the men have terrorist connections, and none of them have criminal records in the US.
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The ongoing effort by activists to secure the release of many Haitian asylum seekers who are being held in INS detention reached a high point this week when INS Commissioner James Ziglar and Florida Senator Bill Nelson visited 23 women in detention at a Miami area jail. While Ziglar did not make any public comments, Nelson said the Commissioner was looking at the possibility of moving the women to a less restrictive facility, and possibly even finding community sponsors for them, which would secure their release.
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Border Patrol agents found the bodies of five undocumented immigrants from Mexico in the California desert this week. The men all died of exposure about 70 miles east of San Diego. Officials believe that they died over the weekend, about four days before they were spotted by a military aircraft.
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A group of 18 suspected undocumented immigrants was detained by sheriffs in Tulsa, Oklahoma and then released at the request of the INS, according to the sheriff’s department. They were arrested after the van they were driving in was stopped for a traffic violation.
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