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    Upgrades to Illegal Immigrant Facilities Probed

    Upgrades to Illegal Immigrant Facilities Probed
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    AOL News LOS ANGELES (June 29) -- A California congressman is investigating a government proposal to upgrade immigration detention centers to include unmonitored phone lines, dance and cooking lessons, continental breakfasts, freedom from lockdown and other amenities.

    Nine facilities that house illegal immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement are slated to undergo changes that would make the detainees' stay more comfortable. ICE officials still need to finalize the project, which includes facilities in California, Arizona, Texas, Georgia and New Jersey.

    "The federal government doesn't provide that for our seniors who have worked legally all their lives, why should we do that for people who have violated our sovereignty?" U.S. Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Calif., told AOL News. "I think it's a terrible idea."

    Bilbray is chairman of the congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, formed in 1999 to overhaul the immigration system. It includes 99 members, mostly Republicans. Last week he sent a letter to ICE assistant secretary John Morton, asking for justification to the proposal because he says it's at taxpayer expense.

    "While we certainly agree that detainees should be treated with respect, we have serious concerns about potential short- and long-term costs to the taxpayer as well as the safety and well-being of staff, detainees and visitors when implementing these new regulations," Bilbray wrote in the letter, obtained by AOL News.

    The letter includes 11 questions regarding funding and safety concerns. A reply has not been received.

    Bilbray said he's visited several detention facilities and found them to be way more upscale than jails and prisons housing American citizens. "To be an illegal is to be treated better than a U.S. citizen," he said.

    "If they really hate the detention facility, they can always say 'Forget it, I want to go home' (to their own country)," Bilbray said. "But they see this as a great opportunity to leverage the system so they can stay here legally."

    The upgrades were detailed in an e-mail between CCA, a contractor that runs the facility, and ICE officials. The e-mail was obtained by the Houston Chronicle, which outlined the following changes:


    Self-serve fresh vegetable and beverage bars.
    Arts and crafts lessons and movie nights.
    Eliminating lockdowns and lights-out for low-risk detainees.
    Allowing visitors to stay as long as they like in a 12-hour period.
    Providing a unit manger so detainees have someone to report problems to other than the guard.
    Allowing low-risk detainees to wear their own clothing or other non-penal attire.
    Providing e-mail access and Internet-based free phone service.

    ICE spokeswoman Gillian Brigham told AOL News that detainees do not need a prison atmosphere because they are not placed in the detention centers as criminals, but rather as a civil administrative violation.

    "We're not detaining them for punitive reasons; we're detaining them to return them to their country," she said, adding that any of the reforms will not include additional taxpayer funding.

    Bilbray didn't buy it, saying taxpayers foot the bill for the contract with vendor CCA, regardless of what they want to implement.

    The proposal was also met with protest by ICE union leader Tre Rebstock, who told the Chronicle that it would create "an all-inclusive resort" for detainees. "My grandparents would have loved to have bingo night and a dance class at the retirement home they were in when they passed away, but that was something we would have had to pay for," he said.

    Both Bilbray and Rebstock questioned the safety of eliminating lockdown, which would allow free reign for criminals who have slipped through the judicial cracks.

    Brigham stressed that the upgrades have not been approved, but rather were proposed in response to ICE officials announcing last year that detention centers would undergo reform. Detainees are housed at 256 locations around the nation, including 13 operated by CCA.

    The facilities proposed for upgrades are:
    Eloy Detention Center, Arizona.
    Florence Service Processing Center, Arizona.
    Houston Contract Detention Center, Texas.
    Laredo Contract Detention Facility, Texas.
    North Georgia Detention Center, Georgia.
    Otay Detention Center, California.
    Stewart Detention Center, Georgia.
    T. Don Hutto Detention Center, Texas.
    Elizabeth Contract Detention Facility, New Jersey.

    http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/p ... n/19534495

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    Makes

    Makes me almost wish I was an Illegal Alien Invader.

    However, I have a conscience and would never impose myself on a foreign nation and its people, waving my home country's flag, making demands for citizenship/voting rights and that the country change its language for me.

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    Re: Makes

    Quote Originally Posted by Tbow009
    Makes me almost wish I was an Illegal Alien Invader.

    However, I have a conscience and would never impose myself on a foreign nation and its people, waving my home country's flag, making demands for citizenship/voting rights and that the country change its language for me.
    YOU ARE RIGHT, AND AS FAR AS THAT FLAG WAVING GOES AND THE DEMANDS BEING MADE ON THIS COUNTRY, ITS AWFUL FUNNY THAT OUT OF ALL THE OTHER COUNTRIES WHO HAVE ILLEGALS RESIDING IN THE U.S., ITS ONLY THOSE OF HISPANIC DECENT WHO ARE MAKING ALL OF THESE DEMANDS. AND THEN THEY COMPLAIN THAT THEY ARE BEING PROFILED BECAUSE OF THEIR RACE. THEY ARE THE ONES PUTTING THEMSELVES OUT THERE.

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    Not even

    ITS ONLY THOSE OF HISPANIC DECENT WHO ARE MAKING ALL OF THESE DEMANDS. AND THEN THEY COMPLAIN THAT THEY ARE BEING PROFILED BECAUSE OF THEIR RACE. THEY ARE THE ONES PUTTING THEMSELVES OUT THERE.

    Very few Hispanic people are doing anything offensive to me EXCEPT the Mexican people who are at the core of the Illegal Alien problem/debate. Mexicans and Mexico itself are behind La Raza. Mexicans and Mexico are the ones who are stirring up all the racism for their own selfish Racist/Nationalist agenda. Mexico is just USING the rest of the latin/hispanic community.

    If it werent for Mexicans flooding across the border Illegally or overstaying visas etc with the racist intentions of Reconqista, there would be only a handful of hispanic people illegal and the numbers would be equal that of any other ethnic community that is here Illegally.

    AGAIN....Mexico is 100% of the problem. The rest could easily be handled by ICE, given asylum if they are good people...

    Its time to get tough with Mexico and tell them what we expect of them if we are to be good neighbors. If they DO NOT want to be good neighbors than its time to cut them off completely...

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    They PROFILE themselves just as THEY SEPERATE THEIR OWN FAMILIES!

    They are criminals and should be treated as such!

    NO MORE SPECIAL TREATMENT DEPORT THEM NOW!
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    How many of these detainees used False Documents to obtain jobs,benefits and to escape detection ?? IMO most if not all are Felons NOT cilvil lawbreakers.

    Again citizens are sent to jail for small crimes such as shoplifting so why is breaking our immigration laws not as,if not more aggregious,then shoplifting ?

    This coddling IA's makes it easier and more comfy to fight their deportation while they receive "Club Fed" perks.
    "A Government big enough to give you everything you want,is strong enough to take everything you have"* Thomas Jefferson

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    I'm noticing that the article leaves the "California Congressman" un-named. Why? The opponents are named so that they can be targeted by the LaRaza hate groups but the Congressman is protected?
    Restitution to Displaced Citizens First!

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    "The federal government doesn't provide that for our seniors who have worked legally all their lives, why should we do that for people who have violated our sovereignty?" U.S. Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Calif., told AOL News. "I think it's a terrible idea."
    "While we certainly agree that detainees should be treated with respect, we have serious concerns about potential short- and long-term costs to the taxpayer as well as the safety and well-being of staff, detainees and visitors when implementing these new regulations," Bilbray wrote in the letter, obtained by AOL News.
    I like this guy! I wish more of our "representatives" cared so much about logic, laws, and sovereignty. Keep voting for people with common sense like him and screw the traitors.
    I would never be so arrogant as to move to another country and expect them to change for me.

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