34,000 Immigrants Are in US Detention Centers - But One Got a Christmas Miracle Saki Knafo - The Huffington Post
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Oscar Campos (Humberta Campos)

Oscar Campos received an unexpected Christmas gift from the Obama administration on this week.

He was eating lunch with the other inmates at the Elizabeth Detention Contract Facility, a jail for undocumented immigrants near Newark, N.J., when an officer approached him and said, "You’re free to go."

And so the three-week saga of his arrest and detention ended as abruptly and mysteriously as it began.

Campos, a native of Mexico who had lived a quiet life in the U.S. for more than two decades, was arrested earlier this month by federal immigration officers. They brought him to the Elizabeth lockup, which holds about 300 immigrant detainees, some of the hundreds of thousands of undocumented people the U.S. government detains each year while deciding whether to deport them.

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