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Washington State Sues Over Aliens
Loaded on March 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1996, page 22
The state of Washington filed suit in federal district court on November 22, 1995. The suit seeks an injunction which would force the federal government to take all of Washington's 760 illegal alien prisoners (about 7% of the state's prison population) and house them in federal prisons. A provision of ...
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