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Mandatory detention was officially authorized by the federal government in 1996 with the enactment of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRAIRA). From 1996 to 1998, the number of immigrants in detention increased from 8,500 to 16,000 and by 2008 this number increased to more than 30,000...

According to the Global Detention Project, the United States possesses the largest immigration detention system in the world. Currently, ICE detains immigrants in fifteen detention centers (including privatized facilities), in state and local jails, in juvenile detention centers, and in shelters.

Several human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and a series of reports made by the New York Times have cited concerns with ICE’s management of these detention centers. Reports refer to instances of human rights abuse and inadequate or unprofessional medical care in these detention facilities. Such reports have also publicized the death of several immigrants in detention and have accused ICE of covering up this information.

While the United States Constitution provides convicted individuals with legal advice, free of charge if they cannot afford an attorney, immigrants are not guaranteed this right. Instead, they must pay for a lawyer, an option most detained immigrants cannot afford.

While ICE detention standards state that detainees are provided with access to law libraries, allotted a handbook discussing immigration detention, and given a presentation on their legal rights, these actions are often not carried out in practice.

Luiz Enrique Guzman while at the private Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, stated, “the conditions [were] "terrible"…the center staff frequently violated his civil rights” and that “he was beaten while in detention and placed in segregation because he worked to organize detainees.”

The New York Times reported “recurrent complaints include[ing] frigid temperatures, mildew and meals that leave detainees hungry and willing to clean for $1 a day to pay for commissary food” at the Varick Federal Detention Facility in Manhattan. In addition, individuals in immigration detention centers are often placed in custody with violent offenders, even though undocumented immigration is a civil, not criminal, matter.

Sad! Just downright ******* sad.

How do you figure someone as completely brain dead as your articles make Trump out to be got to be President?

Do you have separate bathrooms at home for him and her?

Obviously, the Trump "Just Lie About Everything" mode is fully institutionalized.

Sarah Maslin Nir ‏@SarahMaslinNir 18h18 hours ago
In the Trump store inside Trump Towers, sales woman told me "It's all made in America." Actually none is.

Ya know, Bill, I tried really hard to join up with some animal rights and eco-terrorist groups. I figured if I got in tight with them, I could mooch offa them for a good long spell.

But I just got confused and could never pass the entry exams.

On the one hand, they tellya ya gotta save whales. Then they tellya ya gotta save baby seals. Then ya find out that whales eat baby seals. I just couldn't keep it all straight.

Stephen Miller’s claim that 72 from banned countries were implicated in ‘terroristic activity’

“First of all, 72 individuals, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, have been implicated in terroristic activity in the United States who hail from those seven nations, point one.”
— White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Feb. 12, 2017

“We know there’s at least several dozen, perhaps many more than that, cases of terrorism from these countries that have happened in the United States in terms of terroristic plots, terroristic activity, material support for terrorism, supporting terrorism overseas, all different kinds of terroristic activity that’s been interdicted in the United States tracing back to these seven countries.”
— Miller, ABC’s “This Week,” Feb. 12


Miller earned Four Pinocchios for repeating debunked claims about voter fraud on the Sunday shows. But he made other problematic claims as well. In defending President Trump’s executive order on immigration, he said on the Sunday shows that dozens of people “have been implicated in terroristic activity,” including providing material support for terrorism.

Miller claimed this, despite a ruling by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit that “the Government has pointed to no evidence that any alien from any of the countries named in the Order has perpetrated a terrorist attack in the United States.” What is Miller talking about?

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Mandatory detention was officially authorized by the federal government in 1996 with the enactment of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRAIRA). From 1996 to 1998, the number of immigrants in detention increased from 8,500 to 16,000 and by 2008 this number increased to more than 30,000...


According to the Global Detention Project, the United States possesses the largest immigration detention system in the world. Currently, ICE detains immigrants in fifteen detention centers (including privatized facilities), in state and local jails, in juvenile detention centers, and in shelters.

Several human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and a series of reports made by the New York Times have cited concerns with ICE’s management of these detention centers. Reports refer to instances of human rights abuse and inadequate or unprofessional medical care in these detention facilities. Such reports have also publicized the death of several immigrants in detention and have accused ICE of covering up this information.

Trump is gunna keep the damn trouble-making ACLU and Amnesty International clean out of it. From what I hear-tell, the number of detention centers is being increased from 15 to 15,000, but all the new locations will be kept top secret.

Uh oh...I think I saw a guy from FEMA buying up all the tents at the ElPaso Walmart.

I don't buy it. Money can buy a lot of stuff, but not the presidency.

You guys keep making Trump out to be some bumbling clod ...

Also, actual dumb people can't hold onto money or create several successful businesses.

The left, every day, talks about Trumps tweets, his hair, his family, his whatever of the moment.