DHS gives new promises on detention reform

October

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced changes to the detention system today. The department is still talking about alternatives to the growing use of detention centers, now in a bit more detail. DHS is promising that Immigration and Customs Enforcement will pay closer attention to detainees’ health, circumstances and treatment. Among the steps:

• Having ICE headquarters handle contracts with detention centers, rather than handling them through various field offices.

• Giving detainees some kind of risk assessment that determines where they should be held. “ICE will pursue detention strategies based on assessed risk and reduce costs by exploring the use of converted hotels, nursing homes and other residential facilities,” says the press release.

I don’t see any specific mention of alternatives like the use of electronic bracelets. But DHS reportedly will send a plan to Congress about the use of such alternatives.

Amnesty International is among the organizations that have criticized the U.S. treatment of detainees. The organization issued a statement calling for concrete changes:

Amnesty International is encouraged by Secretary Napolitano’s decision to find new environments for immigrants that will not require prison jumpsuits and jail cells. However, without a change in law, thousands of immigrants will continue to be arbitrarily deprived of their liberty…

The immigration detention system is a crutch that sustains a shattered, inept and inhumane enforcement policy. It is a pitiable substitution for smart immigration policies. A significant reform of the entire system is desperately needed now – not tomorrow.

The NY Times reports on Napolitano’s comments here and posted Dora Schriro’s top-down review of the detention system, prepared for DHS.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 at 1:19 pm by Leah Rae.
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2 Responses to “DHS gives new promises on detention reform”

Brittancus October 6th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
AS LONG AS THEY ARE FINALLY DEPORTED..?

By now most business are conscious of the federal program E-Verify? It distinguishes US citizens and legal residents from illegal labor. Although not seamless, it has a 99.6 success rate and obviously will overtime become even more constructive to business that believes in the “Rule of Law.” Opponents in both the business sector and even on Capitol Hill have released a torrent of abuse against the application. That includes its function is blind to counterfeit documentation and spurious ID and that even legal individuals can be rejected? SO—YOU GO TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE TO BE EXONERATED? ONLY ILLEGAL WORKERS WILL SHUN TURNING TO SSA FOR RESOLVING THIS ISSUE.

The open border conspirators are losing, as they did in a federal Maryland court a week previous. As E-Verify are perfected it needs to become a permanent tool in the incomplete arsenal of immigration enforcement. It needs to reach out to every company, big and small, in our country and every individual who works there? E-Verify eventually will expel foreign national from the workplace, without financial appropriations on a large scale. These people will self-deport when they cannot be hired anymore. Businesses facing huge fines and prison will be the ultimate deterrent. In time it will save our ailing schools, health care, home mortgages and government welfare system. Look to NUMBERSUSA for honest an answer, that includes costs to taxpayers for the new blanket AMNESTY. Which Senators and Republicans are anti-US American Worker and their immigration grades?

For an example Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) has a miserable enforcement grade of “C-”. He was out to erase E-Verify, under fund the border fence from the beginning of the Democratic administration. Then JUDICIAL WATCH is a public watchdog group Promoting Integrity, Transparency and Accountability in Government, Politics and the Law. They uncover misconduct by government officials and litigation to hold to account politicians and public officials who engage in corrupt activities. Finally CAPSWEB informs the public about the coming nightmare of OVERPOPULATION that is already exhibiting itself in our deteriorating infrastructure. TELL YOUR POLITICIANS YOU HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE AT 202-224-3121

SAY NO PRO –ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT LIBERAL SOCIALIST-~~SANCTUARY CITY~~-MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM FOR GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA.
BULLDOG October 7th, 2009 at 7:46 am
if these idiots didn’t come here illegally in the first place we wouldn’t have to spend more money on their health
care while legal Americans suffer. They should be given a meal of dog food and then deported by dragging them behind a
pick up truck and dumping them across the Mexican border.

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