iceman wrote:
Coffee Break...of course! They come right up to us...while we are sitting at Dunkin Donuts...forgot no DD here. Well, not much you can do to change the opinions of the uninformed. Just wonder if there is a police department in Utah that can match the results of 5,800 arrests by three agents. Well..off to get more coffee...think I'll have a capacino latte.
They're probably working at Duncan Donuts!
One would think that the Utah County Sheriff would get a clue after several thousand illegals have been checked into his "graybar hotel".
Looks like Uncle Sugar plans to keep you busy!
Immigration agency plans new family detention centers
The federal ICE, which already runs two such facilities, is taking bids for as many as three more. Critics say detaining families is punitive and unnecessary.
May 18, 2008
LA Times
The federal government is accepting bids for up to three new family detention centers that would house as many as 600 men, women and children fighting deportation cases.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a call for proposals last month and set June 16 as the deadline. New facilities are being considered on both coasts and on the Southwestern border. The agency calls for minimum-security residential facilities that would provide a "least restrictive, nonsecure setting" and provide schooling for children, recreational activities and access to religious services.
There are currently two family facilities -- a former nursing home in Pennsylvania and a former prison in Texas. The T. Don Hutto detention center in Taylor, Texas, opened in 2006 and faced protests and lawsuits within the year charging that the children were living in substandard conditions. A settlement resulted in changes in how the children are treated.
The need to imprison families stems from the presence of so many illegal families sneaking across the border or hiding in the United States, said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a nonprofit group that advocates a reduction in the number of immigrants.
"This is really recognizing the realities of the illegal alien population," he said. "They used to let everybody out and trust them to come back. That hasn't worked out, to say the least. This is simply the pendulum moving back the other way."