Originally Posted by crail
I don't see any reason to make the detainee locations any less penal. The people in them have broken the laws of our country by being here illegally!
My 20 year old nephew made the horrible mistake of going to Tijuana, Mexico with a friend last weekend. He was arrested for having a pocket knife in his pocket and spent 48 hours in, first the city jail, and then the federal prison.
The Tijuana police got a big kick out of him having an Arizona driver's license! If he had just paid the $20 bribe they asked for they would have let him go. He wouldn't pay it, had plenty of money on him. He had a terrible experience there, probably more than we will ever know. We are grateful he is home. We could have lost him forever. His detainee location was NOT "less penal"!
The detention facilities should be penal, and should be frightening. To warn them to NOT COME BACK!