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America's Detention System For Immigrants

America's detention system for immigrants

Immigrants face long detention, few rights

America's detention system for immigrants has mushroomed in the last decade, a costly building boom that was supposed to sweep up criminals and ensure that undocumented immigrants were quickly shown the door. Instead, an Associated Press computer analysis of every person being held on a recent Sunday night shows that most did not have a criminal record and many were not about to leave the country - voluntarily or via deportation. Ref. Source 9

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Immigrant detention overhaul planned

Federal officials have announced an ambitious plan to revamp the nation's immigrant detention system, a patchwork of public and private facilities that has been widely criticized in recent years, including in two lawsuits that alleged poor conditions in a San Diego detention center. Ref. Source 7

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US to reform immigrant detention

Converted hotels are among proposed to hold nonviolent immigrants under plans to reform the US system of detention. Ref. Source 7

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I think that something needs to be down with all the illegal immigrants that are in the USA. I believe that if they want to be here so bad then use the legal means to get here. IF they do not want to do that then shoot and kill them. We do not need them causing problems in the US.

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Record Numbers of Undocumented Immigrants Being Detained in U.S.:

About 41,000 are currently being held in immigration detention facilities, up from a "Typical" number of between 31,000 and 34,000, Jeh Johnson, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said Ref. Source 7b.

America's Detention System For Immigrants

Tacoma Immigrant Detainees to End Hunger Strike if Demands Met;

The detainees in the 1,575-bed ICE-run detention center are striking against poor living conditions such as food quality, access to medical care, high commissary prices, levels of hygiene in the facilities Ref. Source 1w.

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US immigration authorities say an 8-year-old boy from Guatemala has died in government custody
The boy, who died early Tuesday, is the second migrant child to die in detention this month. Customs and Border Protection said the child showed “signs of potential illness” Monday and was taken with his father to a hospital in Alamogordo, N,M. Source 5f.

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No one, specially a child, should die in any of our detention centers illegal or not. Children at the age of 7 or 8 do not cross that desert on their own and aren't accountable for their actions.