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• 02:05:52 am on May 11, 2008 | # | |
  Tags: America, detention, immigration

  A sobering look at the neglect of immigration detainees in the US. Paging Emma Lazarus.

  Yusif Osman was a U.S. legal resident from Ghana and had been living in Los Angeles for five years. After a companion carrying false ID landed him in immigration detention, Osman was facing deportation on smuggling charges, an allegation he denied. While at an immigration detention center outside San Diego, he died suddenly. His story highlights the poor care some immigrants have received in the scores of immigration facilities across the United States

   

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