Posted on 03/12/2019 1:17:34 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
(Reuters) - Christian Mejia thought he had a shot at getting out of immigration detention in rural Louisiana after he found a lawyer to help him seek asylum.
Then he was quarantined.
In early January, a mumps outbreak at the privately run Pine Prairie U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center put Mejia and hundreds of other detainees on lockdown. “When there is just one person who is sick, everybody pays,” Mejia, 19, said in a phone interview from the Pine Prairie center describing weeks without visits and access to the library and dining hall.
His attorney was not allowed in, but his immigration court case continued anyway - over a video conference line. On Feb. 12, the judge ordered Mejia deported back to Honduras.
The number of people amassed in immigration detention under the Trump administration has reached record highs, raising concerns among migrant advocates about disease outbreaks and resulting quarantines that limit access to legal services.
As of March 6, more than 50,000 migrants were in detention, according to ICE data.
Internal emails reviewed by Reuters reveal the complications of managing outbreaks like the one at Pine Prairie, since immigrant detainees often are transferred around the country and infected people do not necessarily show symptoms of viral diseases even when they are contagious.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
In the 90s, while still in the military, I worked with a guy who went back home for a high-school reunion (20 years). One of the folks he met up with....had been the son of a up-and-growing butcher in the local area. ‘Dad’ had decided in the late 80s to go after a big contract with a grocery chain out of Illinois. To make it work, he’d gone out and found a guy who could hustle up migrants from Mexico with butcher experience, and illegally brought them into the US, and ‘Dad’ had set up this compound in the middle of nowhere where they lived and worked.
The family business was clearing several million a year of profit, and avoiding social security, state/federal taxes, etc. All of this was playing into denying jobs to Americans, and helping the unemployment rate become corrupted. There are thousands of these operations around the US, and like you suggest....these people really don’t care about the US.
Beavens to Hetsy! Are they separating families?!
But she shed a couple of tears on camera, so she must be sincere./s
My grandparents went through all of that.
Yes, to drive down the wages of American sex slaves.
But Emma Lazarus said: “Y’ALL COME! YEEEHAW!”
Which brings us to my other question. Why are our education systems failing to provide the kind of education and training that are needed for basic jobs? Then there would be less excuse for encouraging illegal immigration. It seems the current focus including the Trump education secretary are only focused on the college path.
Our education system has a sales ‘pitch’. If you go and get the college education, you will get this fantastic path to success and great pay.
I would suggest that formula was probably true from the 1950s to the 1990s. However, once we crossed the line where you were incurring $50,000 to $200,000 in debt...the formula ‘broke’. You would now be better off to go off to HVAC courses, get three or four certificates, and find yourself by age 40 making $45k to $60k a year which is the same take-home that a college-degree teacher would clear after taxes and college loan debt payback.
I agree. My late husband and I were both college grads, but by the time our 2 boys were teens in the late 1980s, we realized times had changed. Our older boy was the athletic type, joined the military, fought in Gulf War 1, tried a short stint in civilian work, reenlisted and now has more than 20 year, mostly in Special Forces. He plans to retire soon with half pension and he and wife are just opening their own business. Had they not done that, he figures he picked up a lot of useful skills for various civilian work choices. My younger soon was severely dyslexic and dropped out in the 10th grade. He was depressed and doing nothing. When he turned 18 I told him he needed to start paying $200 a month room and board like his brother said his friends in similar situations were doing. He said, OK, I’ll move out. He moved into a wreck of a house with several friends where they each paid $80 a month rent. I asked a young friend who I had helped if he could give him work and an occasional kick in the asx. This work was a combination graphic and electrical. He met his future wife in his group house. Now, 25 years later he has a fine wife, children, and his own successful small construction/maintenance business. One other important detail. After a few years of marriage there was only 1 grandchild between them. I got an equity line of credit and gave them each $10,000 to buy a house. They each bought a 3 bedroom fixer-upper in the early 2000s, and now I have 4 grandchildren.
So it seems clear that a college education is not essential, but one must gain skills, and parents can play an important role in helping their kids exercise other options. It is a shame the Betsy DeVos only seems to consider the college option as the important education for our young. If more technical and mechanical skills were taught in our schools, we would not have such a welcoming business environment for illegal immigrants.
I am not sure what you are trying to say. What cause and what effect? The military is not flooded with blue collar labor because it is hard to even get into the military without a high school education. Also far more young people do NOT enter the military, so why should they all be deprived of a non college oriented education that has a practical potential. When I was in high school, we had four education paths we could choose from—college scientific, college liberal arts, clerical, or trade/mechanical. Each path had a number of courses you could pick from to pursue a career/work path. Even though I was college liberal arts, I had regular phys ed, and also chose cooking, sewing, and home nursing classes. It was known as a good school system, but I am not aware that students today have nearly as many options. These days phys ed seems to be particularly absent and we have an enhanced obesity problem.
Thanks glee' for the bump.
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