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Detained or disappeared? before the 9/11 round-ups, INS detention had already grown into a system handling 150,000 immigrants a year. Tram Nguyen looks for the connections. (To the Point).(Desis Rising Up and Moving group's investigations into jailed immigrants)

Colorlines Magazine

| June 22, 2002 | Nguyen, Tram | COPYRIGHT 2002 Color Lines Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Paterson, New Jersey. The bus pulls to a stop a block away from Passaic County Jail. My companions, Fernando Reals, a Puerto Rican activist, and Shubh Mathur, a doctoral student from India--regular visitors to immigrant detainees--have tried to prep me during our ride. "Don't let them see you taking paper into the visiting room," Shubh says. Fernando says that he usually hides a nonmetallic pen in his shoe to take notes once inside. But my mind wanders.

The vague highway outlines I see through the dirty bus window add to the illusion that I'm somewhere else. I remember the smells of sick, sweaty men and my mother passing me and my sister over to one of them. My ...

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