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    With or without criminal records, some immigrants spend many years in detention

    by Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times Nov 13, 2018 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - In 2003, Kenyan immigrant Sylvester Owino was convicted of second-degree robbery in San Diego.

    He finished a more than two-year prison sentence and was transferred to the Otay Mesa Detention Center as Immigration and Customs Enforcement began removal proceedings against him.

    Owino applied for asylum but almost 10 years went by before he was released from immigration detention in 2015.

    The long years in detention for Owino might seem the simple byproduct of his criminal record - were it not for cases like those of two Rwandan men being held 2,500 miles away in Virginia.

    The men have been at the Farmville Detention Center since February 2007 - longer than any other immigrants in the U.S. But no crimes blot their history in the U.S.

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