Thread: Illinois Immigration Detainees Will Get More Clergy Visits

Thursday, February 19, 2009
Illinois Immigration Detainees Will Get More Clergy Visits
Yesterday's Chicago Tribune reports that religious groups have begun training around 30 volunteers who will pay visits to individuals being held in county jails awaiting federal deportation. The Access to Religious Ministry Act, passed by the Illinois legislature last December, will go into effect June 1. It requires jails to give reasonable access to religious workers to visit immigration detainees. Currently Illinois jails only permit religious visits for two hours a month to the rotating group of 750 deportees held in jails under contract with the Immigration and Customs Enforceement Agency.


http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2009 ... l-get.html

Read this story the other day. It's supposed to be for "clergy" but they're training volunteers. They spend the time with depression and such and not enough time to abuse and inhumane treatment, so that's why they need all the volunteers. Which in my opinion means we have volunteer trouble makers comming in to claim abuse and mis-treatment under the guise of "clergy".