Immigrant Detention Facilities Inhumane, Study Claims
Two Texas detention centers are among the 10 worst in the country for human rights violations, according to a series of reports released Thursday by Detention Watch Network, a national group advocating reform of the U.S. immigration and deportation system.
“Our immigration detention system is in crisis,” Andrea Black, executive director of the network, said at a press conference organized by advocacy group Grassroots Leadership in Austin. Black said the reports detail inadequate medical care and nutrition and inmates being confined in crowded cells for up to 23 hours a day.
The network's reports claim that immigrants' human ...
Comments (20)
Steve Cook via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Try being imprisoned in Mexico on a immigration violation.. Its amazing how these "Human" Rights groups do not go there and raise as much a fuss as they do here..
Tim Spotswood via Texas Tribune on Facebook
If they don't like it.... go the fuck home!
Todd Humphreys via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Send them home.
Randall D. Craig via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Where were you when T. Don Hutto was going?
Enedelia Obregon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
So, if others treat immigrants inhumanely, that's what the U.S. should strive for as well? I hear people brag this country is better because of respect for people's rights. Are they wrong and this country is no better?
Mary Muna via Texas Tribune on Facebook
oh whine whine whine....don't like Texas....go home
Lauro Garza via Texas Tribune on Facebook
sharing.
Barbara Durso via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I seem to recall the Biblical injunction about "Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers...." I am always dismayed by the vitriol people spew on Facebook.
Tim Spotswood via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It is not just Facebook - I show it in person too ha ha. I am a 2nd generation American and my grandfather came over legally. We are built on immigration, and it needs to be legal immigration!
I am in the process of emigrating and you would not believe all the crap I have to go through... but I would not dream of insulting my host country by entering illegally!
Sonora Hartley via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Certainly everyone deserves humane treatment but what I don't understand is why these people are being held in these facilities. Yes, they are criminals but if we are not going to prosecute them for breaking our laws why aren't they returned to their home country within 48 hours, or certainly no more than 72, of arrest?
Sergio Hernandez De Santos via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Blah blah this country needs immigration oh alas "legal immigration " blah blah I'm ____ generation, so I'm more American than you, blah blah blah when you're hungry you're hungry. !!
Sam Davis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
You're an idiot tim, no call for language such as that. If we treat immigrants inhumanely, it's a certainty we treat citizens inhumanely. Perhaps misanthropes like tim think that's just fine but civilized people know different.
Sam Davis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
tim, teabaggerstan is waiting for you and others to immigrate to a special village, idiotsville.
Bill Eaves via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Then send them back home.....
gypsy314 ne
I say no one ask them to come here and I would be willing to bet were they came from is much worst so get over liberal fools.
David Spratt
an immigrant from Africa claimed he had been held in solitary confinement for three and a half months
This really is outrageous,,, keeping these people confined for long periods of time.. What is this guy from Africa still doing here after 3.5 months? He should have been sent back to his lovely homeland a long time ago where conditions are much better.
We really need deportation reform. No papers ,,,, your on the next thing smoking out of the U.S.
Really how long does it take to determine whether someone has documents or not?
Christine Lund
I'm stunned to hear such cruel remarks. These are human beings with mothers, fathers, sister, brothers and aunts and uncles. Oh I forgot, I'm not dealing with human beings. You all must be the plutocrats I've heard about but never believed existed until now. You people disgust me.
audrey fisher
Sad, after reading the comments: just go home, blah blah blah.
Oh wait a minute - this is a business transaction - how so many of those with negative comments forget this fact.
If the private prison complex is empty and TX has hired these firms, based on occupancy - then you will be paying for empty prisons, as that bill for non-service can't be passed on to the FED for reimbursement.
So, the sad question is which do you "hate more" paying taxes or holding suspected undocumented immigrants in a humane way?
jess perry
whats inhumane is that mexicans, central americans and others have been used and abused by the wealthy elites in their home countries for 4/5 generations now and are forced into risking their lives coming here to get a subsistance wage job!!!!! force the wealthy in mexico who live like kings and pay no taxes to take care of their own people!!!
V Marshall
Sounds like the solution is to expedite the removal process! It should not take a year of detention before removal. Removals should be started while inmates are serving their prison sentence so that removal can occur immediately upon completion of their criminal sentence. Why do we send them to a second holding facility? I realize that immigration judges recently had additional caseloads when removals of Central Americans caught in the act of illegal entry were no longer automatically removed without trial so perhaps that ICE decision should be re-visited?