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Department of Homeland Security neglected deaths of immigrants at detention centers

Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published August 21, 2009.

The department of Homeland security this week admitted that it neglected recording of immigrant death in US detention centers. DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have faced severe criticism from human rights groups over the living conditions for people held at these centers.  FSRN´s Sam Greenspan has more.