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BERKS COUNTY, Pa. -- Dozens of women stood with their children at the fence line of a Berks County, Pennsylvania detention center in August, to protest. They came seeking asylum, mostly from Central America, but were held there for months, their lawyers say, without e stanley cup xplanation. Mothers like a woman from Honduras, who CBS News is identifying as Isabel, who was sent to Berks with her 6-year-old son; stanley cups uk They were held there for 8 months. A guard was later convicted of sexually assaulting her. Isabel CBS News I felt so alone, I wanted to kill myself, she said. Dr. Andres Pumariega is on a government committee charged with investigating immigration detention pol stanley shop icies.Do you yourself know why these people have been held so long asked CBS News correspondent Anna Werner. No I donrsquo;t, that, I ask myself. I donrsquo;t know, Pumariega replied.He says they do not present a risk. And most asylum seekers without criminal records are held less than three weeks before being released, sometimes with ankle monitors, and told to come back to court for a hearing. Dr. Andres Pumariega CBS News Many of the families at the center were held for up to a year. Yet he says when the comm Wefd House Votes to Ban Abortion Subsidies
History may be calling but time s running out to act by Christmas, so Senate stanley cup Democrats are comin stanley tazas g to terms with the idea they won t get everything they want from health care overhaul.For the second time in less than two weeks, President Barack Obama cajoled restive Democrats on Tuesday, urging them not to lose perspective amid intense intraparty battles over government s role and reach in health care. The public plan liberals hoped for appeared dead in the Senate, as did a Medicare buy-in scheme offered as a fallback.Democrats may be close to securing the 60 votes they need at th stanley portugal e expense, however, of some top liberal priorities, reports CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes. The president and vice president pointed out that you take your victories when you can and nothing prevents you from fighting on for the things you believe should have been achieved, said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I. But why spurn a victory in hand There was frustration and angst, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., a leading liberal, said after the meeting at the White House. Everybody has things they want, and they didn t all get what they want and that includes me, big-time. CBSNews Special Report: Health Care ReformBut Mr. Obama got their attention, said Rockefeller, describing a health care remake to cover tens of millions now uninsured as the biggest thing since Social Security. It s hard to ignore that, Rockefeller said.Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La