Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...detained while awaiting action on their request for political asylum, then deported if rejected by the INS. This time roughly 110 men and women were confined behind barbed wire at a detention center near Bayview, Texas, while about 200 mothers with children were held at a Red Cross shelter in nearby Brownsville...
Despite a memorandum last month hastening the seasonal closing of armory shelters across the state, a Cambridge women's shelter did not close its doors yesterday, according to a spokesperson for the state's Executive Office of Human Services...
Spokesperson Jeff Grossman said earlier this week that the Cambridge Armory shelter on Concord Ave., one of 72 shelters in the state owned by the state division of the National Guard, will remain open until its regular closing date...
Cambridge Armory Director James Stewart said he was first told Monday morning that the shelter would not be closed...
...packed Red Cross shelter a few miles from downtown Brownsville, the air is filled with the cries of babies and the smell of urine. Overcrowding and lack of sanitation in the area have contributed to an outbreak of hepatitis. Refugee advocates are infuriated by the Federal Government's inability to clear the bottleneck. Charges Roman Catholic Bishop John Fitzpatrick of the Brownsville diocese: "The INS is saying, 'Sorry, you can't leave to work, but we can't feed...