51.   All have been held in various prisons and detention centers awaiting settlement of their appeals for asylum.

52.   Already, some detention centers are dangerously overcrowded, lawyers for immigrants say.

53.   Almarabh is currently being held in a New York detention center where, according to federal sources, he is refusing to cooperate with investigators.

54.   But because no children are allowed in the Queens detention center, Rajakumar was sent to a center for juveniles in Miami.

55.   But as midsized county jails grew into large detention centers, the style of their management did not always seem to keep pace.

56.   But because no children are allowed in the Wackenhut detention center in Jamaica, Queens, Rajakumar was sent to a center for juveniles in Miami.

57.   But officials at the detention center in Brooklyn insisted that he be driven out, just like any other prisoner.

58.   But once that center filled up, there was no option except to transfer the immigrants to other detention centers around the country.

59.   But officials at the detention center here refused to rule out the possibility that tents might be put up.

60.   But since Wyatt opened, the Clinton administration has quietly proposed to have such companies run most new low-security federal prisons and detention centers.