U.S. Halts Self-Deportation Project

Despite drawing only eight volunteers, a three-week pilot program that urged some illegal immigrants to turn themselves in for deportation was not a failure, U.S. authorities declared Friday. Under the scrapped self-deportation program, called Operation Scheduled Departure, illegal immigrants in five cities who ignored court orders to leave the United States were offered as many as 90 days to put their affairs in order and to leave with family members in some cases, without the usual risk of arrest and detention.
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Posted by Editor at August 25, 2008 07:34 AM