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To: Ahda who wrote (23764)	12/2/1998 10:04:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116764

Thousands To Be Freed From INS Jail Wednesday, 2 December 1998 M I A M I (AP) THE CLINTON administration is temporarily releasing illegal immigrants from jails across the country in an unprecedented move to help their home countries recover from Hurricane Mitch. The Monday decision, good until Jan. 7, affects about 3,000 noncriminal immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Although donations have flowed into Central America since the October storm, those countries need the cash immigrants in the United States send back home every month, said Frank Sharry of the National Immigration Forum in Washington. Immigrants from those countries send back about $3 billion a year - 10 times the U.S. emergency assistance of $270 million, Sharry said. At the Krome Detention Center in Miami-Dade County, eight immigrants were released Monday, and 55 more may be eligible to be freed later this week. At the Bayview, Texas, detention center, an average of 50 immigrants a day have been released by the Immigration and Naturalization Service since Monday. Among those ineligible for release are immigrants who have committed aggravated felonies and those who have communicable diseases. Criminal or noncriminal illegal immigrants deemed to be a danger to the community will remain behind bars. Immigrants awaiting hearings or under deportation orders will be able to obtain work permits if they meet all the requirements on the form, INS spokesman Andrew Lluberes said. Less than a month ago, the administration announced it was suspending until Jan. 7 all deportations of illegal immigrants from Central America.