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swag

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Mon Jun 25, 2018, 01:17 PM Jun 2018

Feds Must Allow Lawyers Access To Immigration Detainees In Oregon, Judge Rules

Source: Oregon Public Broadcasting

A federal judge in Portland ordered Monday morning that immigration attorneys be allowed access to 121 detainees being held in Oregon. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon ruled after hearing arguments related to a lawsuit filed Friday by the ACLU of Oregon. Immigration attorneys have reported being turned away from the federal prison at Sheridan, near Salem.

The detainees arrived at the Sheridan, Oregon, facility more than two weeks ago. Some of the men were separated from their families as part of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy.

Attorneys say most, if not all, the men in the prison are asylum seekers.

Read more: https://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-immigration-detainees-lawyers-sheridan-judge/?utm_campaign=Crushin5&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social

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Feds Must Allow Lawyers Access To Immigration Detainees In Oregon, Judge Rules (Original Post) swag Jun 2018 OP
Take that, fuckhead! flibbitygiblets Jun 2018 #1
Anybody else think somebody is eventually going to be paying these immigrant victims millions? Ligyron Jun 2018 #2

Ligyron

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2. Anybody else think somebody is eventually going to be paying these immigrant victims millions?
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 04:07 PM
Jun 2018

Somebody or some thing anyway for years and years to come.

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