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.
disguised as a ‘terrierist’ ???
So it's okay for our American lawbreakers to suffer through "poor medical treatment and poor access to telephones and attorneys" but we sure wouldn't want our foreign lawbreakers to have to suffer now would we? That would be downright unfriendly!
I suppose that’s where the feds are finding the room in nursing homes for illegal aliens...they’re cutting funds to them for US citizens!
Nursing homes face financial crisis
UpNorthLive.com - Melissa Smith - Oct 6, 2009
“An 8% cut now puts a cut in Medicare because the nursing home industry is able to make money on their Medicare reimbursement and the money they make for ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_0_t&usg=AFQjCNF2WII3K4y8WbY2_thnDykbvevOjQ&cid=1445326138&ei=KNrMSpjoLoLylQSNp_CtAg&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.upnorthlive.com%2Fnews%2Fstory.aspx%3Fid%3D359346
Waves of new fund cuts imperil US nursing homes The Associated Press
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_2_aa&usg=AFQjCNGa8HxH8jNTuzuThPl5
Nice isn’t it. Citizens always come first. /S
Really unfriendly. Why don’t we just roll out the “red” carpet? why not just demand that the American taxpayers each house an illegal in their house and force them to give up the master bedroom?
what kind of “terrier-ist” is the happy camper?
Yep, it’s on Her Royal Dumbness’s DHS site. I think now it’s time to come up with a different name for the “Department of Homeland Security”. How about “Department of Hospitality Services”?
I’d much rather see the dogs in shelters in the hotels and the criminals in the shelters. Sheriff Joe has abused animals in the air conditioned cells and the convicted perps in the tents.
I’d be willing to bet (no money :) that some of the nursing assistants are, (cough) illegal themselves?
Nope. I read on article yesterday that was a hoot. It called Obama’s “rise” in approval a “SPIKE”. haha
Sure. Elderly vote in high numbers. With Obama care, they might want to vote Republican. With Obama care, they will get killed off, thus releasing more room for the future Democrat voters (illegals) whom the Dems will keep long enough for any kind of SHAMNESTY TO KICK IN.
Tony Perkins was really creepy. Part of that was filmed in Phx. Janet’s former cruising grounds.
Of course those protecting them are the same AHs that hire these criminals, all for higher profits, while forcing legitimate Americans to subsidize them.
Profits regardless of consequences.
First, I had to laugh. “Republic Washington Bureau”. Probably someone connected by skype.
Then, I noticed the typical “AZ Republic” sugar coating and lying by omission, “immigrants”. Hell, if they were only “immigrants” then they wouldn’t be in jail, WOULD THEY ARIZONA REPUBLIC?.
Thank you for the link. I had to get some stuff off of my chest. ;)
Yep. The know that the taxpayer will pay the health care, school costs, criminal costs. Each employer that knowingly hires one or conveniently doesn’t check, needs their ARSE thrown in jail and a HUGE FINE to cover their ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT EMPLOYEES COSTS TO THE TAXPAYERS.
I feel better now. sometime ALL CAPS can do that. ;)
Who cares about citizens? Bring in those future Dem voters!
AMEN SISTER!
it is related. screw the American taxpayer. red carpet for law breakers.
Good point. Some of that Kobe beef (100 buck kind)
Why do I get the feeling that you, I, and a lot of other Americans are going to be saying that with this administration?
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