Rumors of U.S. haven for families spur rise in illegal immig

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The latest development with the ongoing saga of illegal immigration from an LA Times article - Rumors of U.S. haven for families spur rise in illegal immigration

In 2008, immigration officials stopped placing parents traveling with their children at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas, after allegations surfaced of human rights violations at the facility.

The fact that so many parents with children have been freed to travel within the U.S. has sent rumors flying through Central American nations that parents will not be detained in the U.S. if they arrive with a child — spurring even more families to launch the journey...

Some of them were expecting a warm welcome...

Ramos said she was with about 20 other families with children — some as young as a few months old — when apprehended. They had looked forward to being caught, she said — at one point even waving down federal helicopters — because of the welcoming treatment they had assumed they would receive.

Most of the coverage is about Arizona objecting to immigrants being dumped there. At least some of that flow is from the families providing the name/address of someone in Arizona.

ICE officials say that the immigrants are released as long as they can provide an address for their destination — with family or friends, no matter their legal status.
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Assuming that she would be allowed to remain in the U.S., Ramos was instead given paperwork ordering her to report June 17 to the ICE field office in Des Moines, near where her parents live, and allowed to board a bus to Iowa.

The LA Times article provides more coverage of the whole situation.