Immigrants

immigrants: The five released Friday evening had crossed the border illegally and surrendered to protest federal immigration policies, according to Times Colonist. One of the 25 immigrants detained in El Paso in September previously was deported. Authorities released 11 people Tuesday from that group of young immigrants. They were brought to the U.S. as children but are not citizens and EL PASO, Texas - Federal officials in Texas have released five immigrant protesters who surrendered in September to U.S. authorities at the border with Mexico. Hours earlier, a judge in El Paso denied requests for asylum by two immigrant protesters. Eight of the immigrant protesters remain detained, seven of them having been denied asylum and the other awaiting parole. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.