“The Obama administration’s new detention manual is more like a hospitality guideline for illegal immigrants. The administration goes beyond common sense to accommodate illegal immigrants and treats them better than citizens in federal custody. The new detention manual contains extensive and customized details for each illegal immigrant’s stay, regulating everything from the salad bar to recreational activities to medical care. Illegal immigration already costs American taxpayers billions each year and these increased regulations force them to keep an open tab for illegal immigrants.
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Smith: Deportation Manual a Hospitality Guideline for Illegal Immigrants
Lamar Smith's misleading, cruel comments simply ignore the harsh reality imposed by the US on detainees.
If a government is going to detain people - including legal permanent residents - many awaiting administrative or judicial proceedings which could free them - the government must care for them.
Mr. Smith's broad, uneven, arrogant critique ignores the life-threatening medical conditions, which burden many detainees (as well as prison inmates).
Mr. Smith takes no note whatsoever of the deaths of persons in US detention, including deaths occurring in miserably run state and local facilities, to which detainees are farmed out.
For a fact-based look at the context which Lamar Smith ignores, see:
- Locked Up Without End: Indefinite Detention of Immigrants Will Not Make America Safer by Michael Tan, IPC Special Report, October 6, 2011.
System of Neglect - As Tighter Immigration Policies Strain Federal Agencies, The Detainees in Their Care Often Pay a Heavy Cost
