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U.S. Drafts Plan for Influx of Illegal Immigrants; Pentagon, Justice Department Discuss Holding Camps for Larger Flow From Mexico

Federal officials have begun developing contingency plans to create military-run holding camps for illegal immigrants crossing into the United States from Mexico if in the future a sudden and substantial increase in the human flow overwhelms the Border Patrol and other civilian agencies.

Although Justice Department and Pentagon officials maintain that they have no reasons to anticipate such an emergency, the plans -- if ever fully developed, approved and executed -- would mark a significant departure from the way illegal immigrants entering by land have been handled.

Currently, immigrants entering the country illegally are processed quickly to establish their identity and are then returned ...

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