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Going Home in Handcuffs: Part 3
by Marianne McCune
Click here to see photographs of Javaid Iqbal as well as pictures from "Going Home in Handcuffs: Part 1".Most of the Middle Eastern and South Asian men now being picked up and deported for immigration violations are held in standard detention centers around the country. But in the months after September 11th, dozens were held in a high security federal prison in Brooklyn - some in solitary confinement. As they've been released from prisons and deported to their countries of origin, many are telling stories of abuse. WNYC's Marianne McCune went to Pakistan and filed this report.
Going Home in Handcuffs: Part 1
Going Home in Handcuffs: Part 2
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