Detention squeeze forces illegals back on streets

Detention squeeze forces illegals back on streets - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - June 08, 2005: "More than 70 percent of the 98,000 illegal aliens detained so far this year by the U.S. Border Patrol from countries other than Mexico were released almost immediately onto the streets of America because of a lack of detention facilities, federal authorities said yesterday.
Under questioning by members of two Senate subcommittees, Border Patrol Chief David V. Aguilar said agents in Texas alone were experiencing a near threefold increase in the number of illegals known as 'other than Mexican,' or OTMs.
But because of a lack of detention beds, he said, 'there is no place to put them.'
'We interdict them, process them and then hand them off,' Chief Aguilar said. "