Previously, the detainees could be held indefinitely while awaiting deportation.

Now, the law requires - and the increase in detention beds allows - such immigrants to remain behind bars while awaiting deportation.

He told me that he had been awaiting deportation for too long.

It was written as she and her husband awaited deportation to the East and death.

Only detainees awaiting deportation or appealing against their immigration status are held at Haslar.

Others have been held beyond their sentenced time and are awaiting deportation as excludable aliens.

The children were taken from her on the spot and held to await deportation.

He said they were imprisoned awaiting deportation, and their two children were placed in foster homes.

Those who are released will await deportation at home, but some may flee, immigration officials acknowledged.

Many of those awaiting deportation do so without basic legal representation.