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Prices may vary in areas outside metropolitan 129th Year No. 160 M1 DC Sunday, May 14, 2006 M1 M2 M3 M4 V1 V2 V3 V4 Washington. (See box on A2) Backlog At Borders, Cracks in The System With Detention Sites Full, More Immigrants Avoid Deportation

By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer

Beefed-up enforcement at the U.S.-Mex- ico border since Sept. 11, 2001, has sub- stantially increased the number of arrests of illegal immigrants, but tens of thou- sands of captured non-Mexicans continue to be released into the United States be- cause there is no place to hold them, ac- cording to experts and immigration offi- cials. The vast majority simply slip away in- side the country after being issued “Notic- BY TRACY A. WOODWARD — es to Appear” for a deportation hearing — The hearse carrying Fairfax County Detective Vicky O. Armel passes the Sully District station in Chantilly, where thousands lined the street to show their grief and support. documents known to Border Patrol agents as “Notices to Disappear.” The success of border crossers who stay in the United States through this “catch-and-release” Thousands Mourn Fairfax Detective, ‘Our Protector’ process has encouraged others who hope to enter the country the same way. By Paul Duggan and Tom Jackman mel’s funeral at McLean Bible Church — one of the police station, where Armel, 40, was shot to death Mon- In a dozen speeches since October, Pres- Washington Post Staff Writers largest police funerals in memory in the Washington day. There, three limousines near the front of the pro- ident Bush has vowed to replace catch-and- area — a service for the first Fairfax officer in the de- cession rolled to a stop. Members of Armel’s family release with the “catch-and-return” of As thousands gathered yesterday to salute slain Fair- partment’s 66-year history to be killed while on duty by stepped out, among them her young son and daughter 150,000 “other than Mexican” (OTM) im- fax County police Detective Vicky O. Armel, perhaps an assailant. — the boy in khaki pants and a light-blue shirt, his migrants arrested each year. The goal is to no scene spoke more poignantly than the one that un- This was after the procession of about 700 vehicles, blond bangs falling just above his eyes; the girl, a straw- deny court hearings to all but asylum- folded near the crime scene. There, a boy and a girl, 7 led by 160 police motorcycles in two columns, had left berry blonde, in a black dress and white blouse. seekers, speed deportations and make the and 4, emerged from a limousine to look at the hun- the church, crawling at 20 mph, bound for Bright View “My goodness,” whispered an elderly woman in the most of limited detention space in jails, dreds of flowers left on a police cruiser in honor of the Cemetery in Fauquier County, 50 miles away. crowd, “those poor children.” prisons and immigration centers. mother who will not see them grow up. Twenty miles into the route, hundreds of onlookers But as Washington debates the overhaul This was after about 4,500 people had attended Ar- stood quietly watching outside Fairfax’s Sully District See ARMEL, A12, Col. 1 of the nation’s immigration laws and Bush prepares to address the nation tomorrow on border protection, the persistent catch- and-release problem is a reminder of costly and unintended consequences of past en- forcement efforts. Fired Officer Believed CIA Lied to Congress Even if authorities overcome opera- tional and legal hurdles to curb the flow of people from El Salvador, Honduras, Guate- Friends Say McCarthy Learned of Denials About Detainees’ Treatment mala and other countries, experts say they will be addressing only a tiny sliver of the By R. Jeffrey Smith vious year had been probing allegations of two decades, McCarthy became convinced illegal immigration problem. The U.S. Bor- Washington Post Staff Writer criminal mistreatment by the CIA and its that “CIA people had lied” in that briefing, der Patrol arrested nearly 1.2 million peo- contractors in and — as one of her friends said later, not only be- ple last year — the vast majority of them A senior CIA official, meeting with Sen- was startled to hear what she considered cause the agency had conducted abusive Mexicans who were promptly returned ate staff in a secure room of the Capitol last an outright falsehood, according to people interrogations but also because its policies across the border — and estimates that June, promised repeatedly that the agency familiar with her account. It came during authorized treatment that she considered 500,000 others evaded capture. did not violate or seek to violate an in- the discussion of legislation that would cruel, inhumane or degrading. “What Congress has built is one of the ternational treaty that bars cruel, inhu- constrain the CIA’s interrogations. Whether McCarthy’s conviction that most expensive revolving doors in the mane or degrading treatment of detainees, That CIA officer was Mary O. McCar- the CIA was hiding unpleasant truths pro- world,” said Victor Cerda, former chief of during interrogations it conducted in the thy, 61, who was fired on April 20 for alleg- voked her to leak sensitive information is staff of the Immigration and Customs En- CNN VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS Middle East and elsewhere. edly sharing classified information with known only to her and the journalists she forcement agency. Without broader chang- But another CIA officer — the agency’s journalists, including Washington Post Mary McCarthy was fired from the CIA for deputy inspector general, who for the pre- journalist . A CIA employee of See McCARTHY, A14, Col. 1 allegedly giving information to journalists. See IMMIGRATION, A13, Col. 1

VOICES OF 100 VETERANS ‘Code’ as a Blessing in Heretical Disguise In a Shift, Some Christians See Movie as Bridge to Nonbelievers By Michelle Boorstein fice at the National Labor Relations tributed books and DVDs meant to and Alan Cooperman Board. Was Jesus really married? Do expose what they say are the film’s Washington Post Staff Writers some members of the Catholic many historical inaccuracies. Pas- group Opus Dei really wear self- tors are delivering sermons about is- Greg Beatty’s first look at “The mutilating belts? Beatty could an- sues raised by the movie. In classes Da Vinci Code” came when a neigh- swer some things but not others. and seminars, Christians of several bor reached across his back fence in Forty-five million copies later, his denominations are being trained in 2003 and handed the Catholic law- challenge is about to get bigger. On how to talk about the themes. yer the book and a question: Is this Friday, Hollywood will release its Many people involved in these true? version of “The Da Vinci Code,” but programs say they view the movie as After reading the novel, Beatty Beatty — along with many other a disguised gift: a historic evan- saw the questioning spread from his Christians — is ready. Springfield yard to his downtown of- Hundreds of churches have dis- See MOVIE, A9, Col. 1

INSIDE BY VLADIMIR CHALOUPKA — LAS CRUCES SUN-NEWS ARTS “One of the best parts of deploying is the welcome home.” For Two Finales, Much Adieu — SGT. BRANDY MORELAND, TRANSPORTATION SPECIALIST, SERVED IN IRAQ MARCH-SEPTEMBER 2003 Seven years after “The West after landing at Biggs Army Airfield at Fort Bliss, Tex., in 2003 Wing” took Washington by storm, the show’s motorcade pulls away for the last time. The final “Will & Grace” airs this week, but its relevance to gay BACK FROM IRAQ viewers ended seasons ago. N1 ad stuff happened in Iraq, stuff Adam eyes and mouth open. His whiskers a few days TRAVEL Reuter doesn’t want to talk about. old. The bullet had gone in his neck cleanly, just Paris With Kids Not with his friends, not with the line to the right of his Adam’s apple, but had come It can be a great place to visit cooks in the burger joint where he out ugly from the back of his head. He was maybe with children. You just have to worked when he first came home or 25, a little older than Reuter. And his blood was BY LINDA DAVIDSON — THE WASHINGTON POST adjust your sights some. P1 theB tenants in the apartment complex he manag- pooling, thick and almost black in the darkness. METRO & STYLE Free Ride? Tips for using your es now. How can you describe what that was like? Who Premature Twins are First Test for Kensington Mom frequent-flier miles. P1 He doesn’t even want to talk about it with his would understand it? Maggie Beirne, above, kisses daughter Betsy, who was born nine weeks wife, who worried because he was jumping out of Nobody. So Reuter keeps his mouth shut. His early. She waits for the time her son and daughter can come home from MAGAZINE bed in the middle of the night. army uniform is packed in a box in the garage. He the hospital, where they’ve been since their birth two weeks ago. C1 Burden of Proof But when he agrees to talk about the war — hasn’t looked at it in months. Instead, he kisses Purpose-driven: Moms strive to instill the importance of giving back. D1 Long after Roger Coleman’s really talk about it — he goes right to how the in- his baby boy every night. He gets on with his life, 1992 execution, his advocates surgent crumpled after he pulled the trigger. because that’s what everyone else is doing. sought a DNA test to prove his NATION METRO How later, during the firefight, he ended up just a At home in Newnan, Ga., there is no war. innocence. They got the test few feet from the corpse. Bullets buzzed by, and “It doesn’t cross their minds,” Reuter said. “To Libby Filing Adds Details Bridge One Step Closer they wanted and had to learn to he was supposed to keep an eye on the alley, but them, everything is fine.” Notes made by Vice President Completion of the first span of the live with the results. he couldn’t help but glance over. Cheney on a newspaper help new Woodrow Wilson Bridge, to Contents “He just lay there,” Reuter remembers. His provide a context for statements be unveiled Thursday and opened  2006 See VETERANS, A10, Col. 1 his former chief of staff made, to the public in June, will signal a The 7 Washington according to court documents. A6 new era for commuters. C1 Post

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