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FL DOC to Deport Aliens
Loaded on July 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1994, page 13
Florida Governor Lawton Chiles announced on March 17, 1994, that he hopes to persuade federal immigration officials to let the state release foreign felons convicted of nonviolent crimes and then ship them home. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has identified 2,700 Florida state prisoners as undocumented immigrants, while the ...
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