LIRS Statement for House Hearing on Detention
by Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
February 13, 2008
Attached is the Statement of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
Submitted to the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border
Security, and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary
For the February 13, 2008 Hearing on
Problems with ICE Interrogation, Detention, and Removal Procedures.
It gives examples of how local Lutheran churches and communities have responded to ICE's increase in raids, detentions, and deportations.
