Immigration Officials Often Detain Foreign-Born Rikers Inmates for Deportation
"In a city with a “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach to immigration status, it may come as a surprise to many that the New York Department of Correction routinely gives a list of foreign-born inmates at Rikers Island to immigration authorities, who use it to question, detain and try to deport thousands of them."
NINA BERNSTEIN in the New York Times.