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Napolitano May Move Captured Illegal Aliens from Jail to ‘Converted Hotels, Nursing Homes’”
CNS NEWS.com ^ | Wednesday, October 07, 2009 | By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer
Posted on October 7, 2009 11:15:02 PM PDT by Cindy

SNIPPET: “(CNSNews.com) – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday that she is pursuing plans to remove some captured illegal aliens from “prison-like or jail-like circumstances” and put them in converted hotels and nursing homes.

“To better manage detention operations, ICE will develop a risk assessment and custody classification, which will enable detainees to be placed in an appropriate facility,” DHS said in a statement. “ICE will pursue detention strategies based on assessed risk and reduce costs by exploring the use of converted hotels, nursing homes and other residential facilities.”

Napolitano explained her department’s thinking at a press conference at Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Washington, D.C.

“Our detention system has some who have committed crimes, others whose crimes under federal law is a misdemeanor, others who have as I said before not committed a crime at all,” Napolitano said.”

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