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Frontline correspondent and The Futuro Media Group’s President, Maria Hinojosa takes a penetrating look at President Obama’s vastly expanded immigration net, explores the controversial Secure Communities enforcement program and goes inside the hidden world of immigration detention in Lost in Detention, airing Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, at 9 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings).

More than one million immigrants have been deported since Obama took office. Under his administration, deportations and detentions have reached record levels. The administration has promised to make the detention system more humane, and more selectively target the most serious criminals. But it faces Republican critics who urge stricter measures — and a growing backlash among Latino voters, a key 2012 electoral force.

In a co-production with the Investigative Reporting Workshop, correspondent Hinojosa tracks the enforcement sweep from the neighborhoods of Illinois to the expansive Willacy Detention Center in south Texas. During a yearlong investigation, Frontline and Hinojosa uncovered a troubling picture of abuse inside immigration detention facilities, as well as alleged cases of beatings, racism and management cover-ups.

This is a “must watch” report that goes to the heart of the immigration debate and to the heart of why The Futuro Media Group and the public media vision and leadership of Hinojosa is needed today more than ever before.

Don’t miss this seminal report on immigration detention on Tuesday, October 18, and please pass this email on to others who may be interested in this important issue.

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