"Country Club" Detention Centers For Illegal Immigrants

Posted: 11:15 am MST November 16, 2010Updated: 11:31 am MST November 16, 2010
EL PASO, Texas -- Illegal immigration costs taxpayers an estimated $100 billion a year. Texas picks up nearly $9 billion of that bill, New Mexico picks up about $608 million. And now the federal government is ordering changes on the taxpayers' dime.

E-mails obtained by the Houston Chronicle reveal that federal authorities have ordered the following changes at the holding centers for illegal immigrants: More variety in menus, fresh veggie bars, self-serve beverages, continental breakfast on weekends, movie nights, bingo, arts and crafts, dance and cooking classes, tutoring and computer training.

The facilities are also to be made more welcoming with new paint, bedding and house plants. Human rights groups think the changes are overdue, claiming that illegal immigrants should not be treated as criminals.

Tonight on KFOX14 News at Nine, hear from critics who say the changes are turning the facilities into country club holding centers that reward people who break the law. What do you think? Are the changes overdue? Or is the U.S. pampering people who break the law?

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