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Lost in Detention

Elizabeth Beresford,
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October 17, 2011

Last year the Department of Homeland Security — the highest number to date.

Tomorrow, Frontline takes a penetrating look at the Obama administration’s vastly expanded immigration net, going deep inside the hidden world of immigration detention in "Lost in Detention."

ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û Executive Director Anthony Romero talks with Frontline correspondent Maria Hinojosa, illustrating the widespread abuses committed inside an immense lock-up system that subjects scores of individuals to unnecessary imprisonment every year. Univision aired an interview with one of the immigrants profiled in "Lost in Detention," Roxana Garcia, last month:

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airs Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS.

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