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In some instances, the volunteers said, men coming to register have been arrested for lacking documents that they had not yet received due to INS backlog.
Standing under a gray granite overhang as snow accumulated in the Government Center plaza, two students carried poster boards reading, “We are here to defend immigrant rights. Talk to us before you register with the INS,” in large print.
Elizabeth A. Saloom ’06, who volunteered on Friday morning before a 9 a.m. class, told the men on their way in to register that they could face a couple of hours of detainment.
But detention isn’t always a brief experience, Saloom said. Her friend’s boyfriend had been deported for 16 months when he went to the INS to register, she said.
Accounts of similar detentions and arrests at Special Registration across the country prompted students from local colleges, including Harvard, to get together earlier this month and plan how they could help those required to register, Saloom said.