Once you're in jail, three common reasons why you might face an immigration hold are that you either: 1  are, or are suspected of being, undocumented or otherwise illegally present in the U.S. 2  committed a crime that makes you deportable (removable) from the U.S. (despite the fact that you have a visa or green card), or.
The Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad was a series of safe houses and conductors who helped slaves escape from slavery to the North or to abolitionists in the South. These links tell you more about this famous railroad..he Underground Railroad was a series of safe houses and conductors who helped slaves escape from slavery to the North or to abolitionists in the South. These links tell you more about this famous railroad..
Not content to wait for laws to change or for slavery to implode itself, railroad activists helped individual fugitive slaves find the light of freedom. Harriet Tubman is sometimes referred to as the Moses of her people because of the way she led them out of slavery. The Underground Railroad operated at night. Slaves were moved from station to station by abolitionists. These stations were usually homes and churches â any safe place to rest and eat before continuing on the journey to freedom, as faraway as Canada.