Schumer Seeks to Keep Immigration Detention Site in Manhattan Open


By NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: January 15, 2010

Senator Charles E. Schumer is urging federal officials not to close immigration detention operations at the Varick Federal Detention Facility in Manhattan, saying that their decision to transfer its roughly 300 detainees to a county jail in New Jersey “will represent a crushing blow to the due process rights of immigrants detained within the New York metropolitan area.â€