Detained Immigrants Need Access to Clergy

From The Associated Press:

CHICAGO — Hundreds of immigrant detainees held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities in Illinois do not get proper access to religious services and clergy, activists said Wednesday.

"This is not just a problem in Illinois, it is a national problem," said Ana Guajardo, an organizer for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

Read the full story as it appears in the Aurora Beacon News.

 
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  • 3/29/2008 11:32 AM Megan wrote:
    Don't even people in prison get to go to a prison chapel? This is unbelieveable in a country founded on such rights as freedom of religion!
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  • 5/6/2008 10:46 PM delia wrote:
    For me I am only hoping that one day there will be a group of congress or a group of people who will dedicate their profession in this kind of problem and never give upm until the illegal immigration problem will be solved.


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