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US 'to cut immigrant detention' (could be kept in hotels and nursing homes)
BBC News ^ | Oct. 6, 2009

Posted on 10/06/2009 5:22:25 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

US officials are expected to announce plans that would allow illegal immigrants not considered a threat to be taken out of jails, reports say.

The new policy would list immigrants according to the risk they may pose, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Detainees who are not criminals could be kept in hotels and nursing homes, according to leaks of the plans.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is expected to give details of the plans later.

Her department is hoping to cut the costs of detaining immigrants, which stood at almost $2bn (£1.3bn) in 2008.

It says alternatives like the hotels and nursing homes would cost about $14 a day, compared to about $100 a day for detention.

Health needs

Each year some 380,000 illegal immigrants are detained in US jails alongside regular prisoners, ahead of deportation.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: aliens; homelandinsecurity; immigrantlist; immigration; invasion; squatters; wakeupamerica; yougettopay
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To: Free ThinkerNY; AuntB

WTF?


21 posted on 10/06/2009 5:43:20 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Nowhere Man

Are you an adult?

The purpose of all bureaucracies is to grow the problem. Make it worse.

Bureaucracies can not grow and prosper with out problems.

Worse......is....good.

Worse means bigger budgets, staff, offices, and ensured employment with full benefits until retirement. Retirement pay depends upon civil service rank. High rank can not be assured in small departments. Big departments handling big problems increases the chance of getting a high staff position.

You need to grow up and look at the incentives, from their point of view. Those that govern us.


22 posted on 10/06/2009 5:57:25 PM PDT by Leisler (It's going to be a hard, long winter)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I guess there will be plenty of room in the nuring homes if the cuts in medicare go through.


23 posted on 10/06/2009 6:01:30 PM PDT by virgil
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To: NonValueAdded
hotels and nursing homes costing $14 a day???

Really! It'll cost more than that to feed them at the McDonald's across the street from the hotel.

24 posted on 10/06/2009 6:04:25 PM PDT by relee ('Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
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To: muawiyah

“When these nutballs are finally out of office let’s make sure they get detained in some sort of facility that will give the rest of us a warm and fuzzy feeling that they are permanently out of our hair.”

I have hard that SOYLENT Corporation has such a facility.

Less reliable sources claim ALPO also has a similar facility.

;-)


25 posted on 10/06/2009 6:12:43 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sheer insanity. How STUPID can this woman and her cohorts be?

They just want these Dem voters to melt back into the population.

Nursing homes??? I don’t want these people anywhere my Mom or her friends at her residence? And hotels for $14 a night? You probably can’t find a flophouse anywhere in the country for that price.

How about the unused cells at Guantanomo? That would at least get most of them closer to home to start with.


26 posted on 10/06/2009 6:13:11 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Joann37

EXCELLANT POINT!!!!

Veterans have to wait, sometimes months for vouchers to get a place to live.


27 posted on 10/06/2009 6:13:56 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Pray for Israel! And Georgia ! And the Iranian people! and Honduras!)
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To: pallis

...stimulus money for new homes and cars. I like your thinking. Can we toss in in-state tuition? How about some free medical care, too?


28 posted on 10/06/2009 6:15:38 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Free ThinkerNY

put’em on a barge headed south...depart via inner tube when near the country of orgin...


29 posted on 10/06/2009 6:17:35 PM PDT by pointsal
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To: Free ThinkerNY; Grammy

Worked really great with the Katrina evacuees.


30 posted on 10/06/2009 6:22:42 PM PDT by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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To: rockinqsranch

It’s in today’s on-line Washington Post. I already made appropriately negative comments and laughed at the ignorance of the Obamistas in our midst.


31 posted on 10/06/2009 6:25:31 PM PDT by muawiyah (qui)
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To: virgil

They start putting these young bucks in the nursing homes there’ll be a lot of room as well as a cut in Medicare costs as the patients get robbed and murdered.


32 posted on 10/06/2009 6:26:53 PM PDT by muawiyah (qui)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

A quickj march to tthe border and a boot in the pants would prevent the need for

nursing homes that American seniors could be living in...

and hotels that American homeless could be living in...


33 posted on 10/06/2009 6:32:31 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Free ThinkerNY; Nachum
It says alternatives like the hotels and nursing homes would cost about $14 a day, compared to about $100 a day for detention.

Not to worry, democrats are defunding nursing homes, so illegals will be either put in hotels or on the streets of America with law-abiding, tax-paying citizens..

Nursing homes struggling across the state, many already in bankruptcy

Wisconsin is now ranked the worst in the country for reimbursing the cost of medical care to nursing homes and other elderly care givers. Administrators say that's why 17 percent of nursing homes in Wisconsin are currently going into bankruptcy -- and why many more may follow.

Nursinghomes face financial crisis

"What we're looking at is the start of what's going to be a real financial crisis in the nursing home industry," says Bortz Health Care Nursing Home administrator, Mark Crane.

Feds limit Arizona sheriff's immigration powers

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose office faces racial profiling allegations over crime and immigration sweeps in some heavily Latino areas of metro Phoenix, said officials from Washington won't let him renew a deal that let his deputies make federal immigration arrests.

"Let them all go brag that they took away the sheriff's authority. Let them all do that. That doesn't bother me. I don't have an ego. I will continue doing the same thing," the Republican sheriff said, noting he can still enforce state immigration laws. "What has changed, other than the politics and the perception emanating from Washington?"

34 posted on 10/06/2009 6:37:53 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Cool!

I'm living in a '95 RV.

About to relinquish my citizenship.

35 posted on 10/06/2009 6:40:09 PM PDT by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: MamaDearest

I remember when my grandmother’s friends, one at a time were sent off to the state hospital when they showed signs of dementia. It was always considered a tragedy. My grandmother lived in New Jersey, so it was Ancora, a state hospital that was not much more than a warehouse for the mentally deficient. I’m afraid that is where we are headed, again. I remember hearing the sadness in my grandmother’s voice as she described the prison like dress that they made the patients wear.


36 posted on 10/06/2009 7:14:42 PM PDT by Eva (Obama bin Lyin)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“...Can we toss in in-state tuition? How about some free medical care, too?”

Absolutely, only don’t scrounge. Give illegals enough to go to better schools than the rest of us peons go to. Send them to Ivy league schools where they can learn to become liberal politicians. Let them have the Congressional medical plan. Why should the American taxpayers ever be free of paying for cheap, subsidized labor?


37 posted on 10/06/2009 8:58:22 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Free ThinkerNY


"More grapes, senorita?"
38 posted on 10/06/2009 9:02:23 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: pallis

Most excellent plan. Let’s send them to Harvard to earn law degrees. Maybe the illegals can edit the Harvard Law Review. After all, it worked out real well the last time.


39 posted on 10/06/2009 10:21:09 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Free ThinkerNY

There are soooo many good posts on this thread!

14 bucks for a hotel? Whats wrong with MREs ( well they are more expensive than spam sandwich.)


40 posted on 10/06/2009 10:36:31 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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