We can't have our nation's ILLEGAL aliens going hungry.
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.
Just when I thought I’ld seen it all.
They can just split and join the 700,000 absconders who’ve already been ordered to be deported, or do like Obozo’s auntie and find a place in public housing.
Eventually, the DHS will just give the “detainees” instructions (in their native language) about how to escape and evade capture next time. Plus, the phone numbers of immigration lawyers and the locations of ACORN offices. I bet that will save a lot of $$.
Cheers!
Move ‘em out, head ‘em up, head ‘em up, move ‘em on,
Move ‘em out, head ‘em up Rawhide!
Cut ‘em out, ride ‘em in, ride ‘em in, cut ‘em out,
Cut ‘em out, ride ‘em in Rawhide!
Well, it’ll get us used to the idea of detention camps for some groups. Later on it’ll be our group.
flight risk and public danger.
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Is he a flight risk ???
Then put him in an unsecure hotel...
Is he a danger to the public ???
Then put him in an unsecure hotel...
Is he a drug peddler ???
Give him a phone...
Did he kill someone on the road ???
Give him a car..
Did he shoot someone ???
Give him a gun..
Oh, yes, we have brains...
I understand incarcerating gang members and criminals. But, send the other ones back, it costs a lot of money to house these people. But, first secure the borders!
OMG....
We can't have our nation's ILLEGAL aliens going hungry.
Why do they get comfy places to stay but legal US citizens are getting kicked out of their homes right and left due to job losses/foreclosures?
I know not related but still...............
Of course, those ‘detained’ in a Tea Party Demonstration will be jailed in San Quentin or Rikers Island because of their overly dangerous behavior.
//sarc
At least in context of other plans they have, it meshes well with the essence of -7bamacare with perhaps a large number rooms freeing up. Don't want them to go vacant, that would be inefficient!
Every day it all becomes more Kafkaesque. Seen today’s AP poll??
No problem. Just have the overworked nurses and nursing assistants keep track of them.
Yeah, what is so freakin’ hard about moving deportees from the jail to the airstrip to a plane manned with a few federal marshals, flying to an out of the way airstip in Mexico or Central America, landing, opening the door, marching them out by gunpoint, closing the door, beeping the horn bye-bye, and taking off back to the good ol’ USA.
If this was any other adminstration (aside from Clinton’s of course) I’d find this hard to believe. But coming from these morons, this is EASY to believe. Idiots!
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