40% vacancy: Feds release illegal immigrant families instead of filling detention centers

Although the beds were empty, the government was still paying for them

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40% vacancy: Feds release illegal immigrant families instead of filling detention centers The government pays for thousands of detention beds for illegal immigrant families, but nearly 40 percent of them were sitting ... more