1.   And it was revealed last week that the Immigration and Naturalization Service can now hold immigrants it deems dangerous, even after a judge orders their release.

2.   At the Westway Motor Inn, near La Guardia Airport, the Mexican immigrants were held in a curious limbo.

3.   He said his son was in the Krome Detention Center in Miami, where illegal immigrants are often held.

4.   He said the INS should hold immigrants for no more than six months after a judge orders them deported.

5.   In El Paso, immigrants are held for deportation hearings after their fifth apprehension.

6.   In Houston, two sex offenders from Oregon escaped from a CCA prison that was supposed to be holding detained immigrants, not violent state inmates.

7.   Investigators often must decide at sea whether to hold smuggled immigrants as witnesses or send them back to their homeland.

8.   Judges in the past have permitted immigrants to be held on evidence kept secret even from the courts.

9.   One of the secret houses where the immigrants were held was in Miami.

10.   The INS can hold immigrants indefinitely if they are deemed a flight risk or a danger to the community.