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Allow Voluntary Deportations of Illegal Prisoners
Dr. B. Cayenne Bird



Dr. B. Cayenne Bird is an ordained minister and a 37-year veteran op-ed journalist and publisher. She volunteers her time as founder and director of United for No Injustice, Oppression or Neglect UNION. The UNION is active in prison reform and criminal justice issues. She is a mother and grandmother and focuses on human rights and restorative justice. She is also the host of television series "Cayenne Common Sense" and publishes a daily online newsletter to subscribers.

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Dr. B. Cayenne Bird
June 24, 2007
Sometimes I am forced to voice a strong opinion when a bunch of milquetoast politicians and their court jesters don't see the bigger picture and scare the bejeepers out of the people who must suffer the brunt of their ridiculous ideas and actions. This is one of those times so I am going to come straight out and say it. Illegal immigrants should not be shipped out of California to prisons in other states.

There are many logical reasons for this view, but the most important one is that most of these young men have children. To break up these families, in many cases for a lifetime, is truly cruel and destructive. I also believe that the California Department of Corrections (CDCr) will sweep up many Hispanics and other nationalities who ARE United States citizens once this program gets fully underway since the agency runs amok with whatever it is that they want to do most of the time. Anyone who trusts that CDCr really keeps its promises and tells anything but lies is deluding themselves. They will transfer whomever they want if strong actions aren't taken against these half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, and ill-advised ideas.

We should stand up strongly against the transfers of any prisoner to another state but support voluntary deportations, or deportations at the time of arrest for many prisoners, something no one in power is even discussing. Why not save all those tax dollars before court and keep this prison industry, a total non-solution to crime that has broken our state, in full view of the voters instead of building it silently? Masking the problem only gives the lawmakers more ability to build the industry ever higher and there would be little resistance from the non-voters related to illegals.


At the new prison destinations, which are nothing more than slave labor camps where human beings are sold into working bondage for a profit, visitors are disallowed. Their families are considered criminal elements in the communities where the for-profit prisons are located so they are unwanted either as residents or visitors on the receiving end. After all, it is the family members who witness starvation, beatings and medical neglect so if they are disallowed, the private prisons can do anything they want without fear of lawsuits or criminal accountability. Profits are made by private prisons by starving the prisoners and denying them medical care which the Governor obviously has no problem with doing to people. Shipping people out to private prisons are a way the Governor can sidestep the Judge's insistence that he end inhumane practices

The firms with which the Governor is wheeling and dealing have a long track record of human rights abuses and millions in lawsuits have been filed and won against them. Research this at Google.com so you can get full the picture of just what is taking place in these deals and the types of companies your tax dollars are empowering. Enter "Wackenhut" which is now Geo and "Corrections Corporation of America" CCA, lawsuit, award, ruling, as key words. There are numerous instances of evidence that these companies deserve to be shut down for crimes against humanity yet our Governor is selling men as slaves to them. It's insane and it's wrong.

In many instances, the inhumane contracts specify that no visitors will be allowed. What kind of beasts would agree to such a stipulation knowing how attached children are to their fathers and other family members?

These transfers of “illegalsâ€