Article: Report raps INS detention of children. (Immigration and Naturalization Service and the rights of alien children)

TUCSON, Ariz. -- An international human rights group is accusing the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service of mistreating hundreds of children, some as young as 8, violating international law and the INS's own regulations.

The New York-based Human Rights Watch compiled a 116-page report -- "Slipping through the Cracks: Unaccompanied Children Detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service" -- after interviewing children who had been detained in Los Angeles County, Calif., and Coolidge, Ariz.

Released April 9, the report paints a grim picture of an isolated Arizona facility with "prison-like conditions" where children are detained ...

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