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.
We have brains, janet and company don’t. she’s been pandering to this crowd since she was our gov.
I use to say that our gain (losing her as gov) was the country’s loss. I still say that, but now I wish she was just causing misery and grief just her in AZ and not the whole country.
They will be in hotels and we will be living on the street. “America, what a country”?
This is not an unlikely scenario. Come over, intentionally get caught, get nice digs, food, medical care, lawyer... all the stuff we American taxpayers have to pay for.
The 700K will now ask for the nice digs, food, medical.....
The illegals or the Democrats?
One lesson from this Administration: just when you think that, something else more vile, vulgar, insane, etc. comes along.
lol All of them.
“innovative” doesn’t have a positive meaning in this case. “moronic” fits the bill.
agree
love those dem economics, wonder how many of janet’s and barry’s cronies own, big, empty, hotels that are about to go under and are going to be “bailed out” with this?
if they have to come, let Sheriff Arapio house them....
he still has the vacancy sign up.
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