81.   Critics also complain that he has a less-than-zealous outlook on enforcing immigration laws.

82.   Cuba, which U.S. officials accused of emptying its jails during the boatlifts, resists taking back the detainees, and immigration laws often bar their release here.

83.   Current immigration law favors refugees from Nicaragua and Cuba who fled persecution in their countries.

84.   Congress has passed immigration laws that require the deportation of people for past acts that at the time were not deportable offenses.

85.   Critics have urged separating the two INS tasks to improve what they say has been lax enforcement of immigration laws and poor service to legal immigrants.

86.   Dentists are not authorities on immigration law, but they often determine who gets locked up in a detention camp.

87.   Detainees range from those who are breaking civil immigration laws to convicted felons, she said.

88.   Defense attorney Stanley L. Cohen suspects the federal investigators are grabbing at immigration law to find excuses to detain people.

89.   During that time, she also wrote three books on immigration law.

90.   Earlier this year, Justice Department officials proposed allowing state and local officers to make arrests for civil violations of federal immigration law.