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October 14, 2013

Arizona: Immigrant Rights Protesters Block Court Proceedings 
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In Tucson, Arizona, immigrant rights advocates disrupted proceedings at
a federal courthouse Friday when they blocked the entrance and locked
themselves to the wheels of two buses carrying undocumented people bound
for the court under a controversial program known as Operation
Streamline. The Bush-era program sees immigrants accused of crossing the
border without authorization sentenced by the dozens to prison terms of
up to six months before they are deported. Protesters say the process
funnels immigrants into the for-profit prison system. Today immigrant
advocates are expected to march on the headquarters of Immigration and
Customs Enforcement in Phoenix as part of a call to halt the
unprecedented number of deportations under President Obama.

 

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