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But immigration activists said the Obama administration implemented clear priorities in its second term that focused on detaining those with serious criminal histories, such as felony violations.

UPDATE: 6 15 p.m. -- Silky Shah of the Detention Watch Network, which advocates for reforms to the immigrant detention system, said in a statement that the budget still shows the Obama administration is focused on detaining and deporting immigrants.

Instead of focusing on detaining recent border-crossers, people with serious crimes or those who had been deported in the past, the White House freed the agency to arrest any unauthorized immigrant its agents find.

It focused on adults detained on psychiatric wards, in police cells and prisons between 2010-13.

Despite the administration's vow to focus resources on detaining and deporting the most dangerous criminals, the Feb. 22 memorandum, posted online Saturday by The Washington Post, instructed agents to pick up the pace of deportations by detaining more noncitizens suspected only of unauthorized residence.

On her campaign website, Clinton says she would "focus resources on detaining and deporting those individuals who pose a violent threat to public safety".

Their research had recently focused on the case of an activist detained this month by authorities on suspicion of harbouring a criminal.

Despite the international attention focused on the case, the Cuban police detained several dissidents and discouraged others from attending the trial.

He refused to provide details of how the alleged fraud operated, but said the Chinese policeinvestigation is focused on the four Chinese nationals already detained by the police.

Further criticism focused on the expansion of the powers to detain asylum seekers, and the abolishing of the automatic right to a bail hearing.

She said she was focused on whether Hong Kong engaged in deliberate foot-dragging in not detaining Mr. Snowden sooner, which has been the complaint of the White House.