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Originally Posted by badpiece33
If INS does happen to pick someone up they goto a detention center and get legal representation and most of the time are let out until their hearing and most just disappear back into the masses in the US.
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They aren't automatically released. The only way they get released is if they can post bond. Otherwise, they sit in detention until their hearing.
At this point the only way that they can avoid being deported is to prove that they are eligible for a waiver. However, entering the country illegally makes you ineligible for said waiver. Those individuals are scheduled for removal regardless of whether or not they have a criminal record.
This happens on a daily basis all over the country. And Homeland Security is now set to crank things up a bit. So plenty of non-criminals will be getting deported.
But before the Department of Homeland Security even existed, INS was known to gather up lots of folks in raids and start them upon deportation procedure.
Oh, and those raids don't just occur in border states. There was a huge raid in January of this year at a manufacturing plant in Laurel, MS. The article is here:
Immigration raid spotlights rift of have-nots Out of the 500 or so arrested, only 29 were released after posting bond. Well over 400 were deported. Most of these folk were honest hard working people whose only crime was being in this country illegally. But that's all you need to be deported.
Vince.