Posted on 10/07/2009 12:07:14 AM PDT by machogirl
ast Updated: Tue, 10/06/2009 - 2:55pm
In an effort to avoid incarcerating illegal immigrants and assure their humane treatment, the Department Homeland Security is creating an innovative system that detains those awaiting deportation based on flight risk and danger.
Illegal aliens determined to pose no true threat to the U.S. will be housed by the government in facilities like hotels and nursing homes rather than jails, according to a news report outlining the Obama Administration’s immigration detention overhaul. Other private facilities are also being considered and Homeland Security officials are asking the private sector for more ideas.
Nearly 400,000 illegal immigrants are currently incarcerated in local, state and federal prisons throughout the nation at a cost of about $2 billion. But Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, with a documented history of opposing immigration enforcement, vowed months ago to devise a plan that offers alternatives to traditional detention of a population she claims poses no threat to the country.
This week the former Arizona governor announced that she has kept her promise to immigration advocates who have long complained about the inhumane conditions in jails across the nation. Among the problems, they say, is the poor quality of medical treatment and illegal aliens’ inability to access basic services, such as telephones and attorneys.
That will all improve by next fall, Napolitano says, because her agency will have a new system that ranks illegal aliens by flight risk and public danger. Immigrants will be detained based on those assessments, with a large number expected to be housed in less restrictive residential facilities, despite the obvious national security risks created by granting such violators virtual freedom.
The official who heads Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Homeland Security agency in charge of incarcerating illegal immigrants, says this will meet his goal of transforming the current operation into a “truly civil detention system” focused on safely and humanely holding people.
I guess janet didn’t want to offend. all the “terrorists” are ave. looking Americans. Some in fatigues. No islamofacists?
Must be the profiling of conservative groups.
If you want to understand terrorism
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They get the General Loan Fix!!!
His/My Fix is at the bottom of my page...Never Fails!...;0)
sums up janet’s policy pretty nicely.
cute doggy. ;)
ping
Here's an idea, increase security to keep them out in the first place and don't keep them anywhere awaiting deportation, just ship them to out immediately.
He’s a rowdy lil’cuss!
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It’s a sore spot here about putting Illegals in the
nursing homes as my Mom turns 89yo next week,,,
She has been in twice after falling,,,(rehab),,,
They should follow the lead of Sheriff Joe!!!
Tent City,,,Green Baloney,,,!!!
What about those leftover Katrina Kottages?
I think that you hit upon and excellent idea. Wonder why janet can’t recognize that.
Let’s just put them on a cruise ship and anchor it offshore.
Hope your mom is well.
Our military doesn’t get the great digs that the illegals get.
They have taken away Sheriff Joe’s Ice agreement. Janet’s top priority when she was gov. here. To mess with Joe.
Yea, for the same reason Zero can’t understand that cutting taxes would actually help the economy. Both of them want us to fail.
Before amnesty? And right to vote?
Heads up!
As for the Troops,,,Our guys put up with 136 degrees,,,
Then froze at nite,,,(2003-2004),,,
The libs have been messin’ with Sheriff Joe since day one,,,
He will find a way to “work around” them I'm sure,,,
Bossier Parrish,Louisiana (my home) leads the state in
“Round em’Up and Throw em’out”,,,
Sheriff Larry Dean don't put up with their Krap,,,
Sheriff Steve Prator in Caddo Parrish is rite there close...
At an average of (lets say a Holiday Inn, $75/day) it would cost $27,00/yr to stay in a H.I.
It cost on average (for a semi-private room) about $70,000/yr for a stay in a nursing home.
ANYONE want to guess which one our "responsible" gubmint will choose to house these poor "undocumented visitors?"
Illinois Nursing Homes Mix Felons, Seniors[Errors And Omissions Understate Criminal Records]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354040/posts
More than any other state, Illinois relies heavily on nursing homes to house mentally ill patients, including those who have committed crimes. But a Tribune investigation found that government, law enforcement and the industry have failed to adequately manage the resulting influx of younger residents who shuttle into nursing facilities from jail cells, shelters and psychiatric wards.
Mentally ill patients now constitute more than 15 percent of the state’s total nursing home population of 92,225, government records show, and the number of residents convicted of serious felonies has increased to 3,000. Among them are 82 convicted murderers, 179 sex offenders and 185 armed robbers.
Yet the state’s background checks on new residents are riddled with errors and omissions that understate their criminal records, the Tribune found, and homes with the most felons are among those with the lowest nursing staff levels.
No. Jail for captured illegal immigrants, period.
True.
And more hunts for illegals means more waste of ICE resources.
I always thought he should've gone into real estate finance, instead of pizza after the war.
'NOBODY defaults on a General Loan Loan.'
(Accompanied by the appropriate photograph.)
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