Thread: US Gives Iimmigrant Detainees Free Phone Access

US gives immigrant detainees better phone access

June 15, 2016

Immigrants being held in detention in four lockups in the state of California, including the one that the Sheriff’s Department of Sacramento County are responsible for running, have been given telephone access to allow them to get legal help after a class action lawsuit.

Yesterday, the lawsuit resulted in the announcement of a settlement that sees US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agreeing to loosen restrictions on the use of telephones that many of the detainees’ lawyers claim made it almost impossible for immigrants to gain legal assistance and to gather the documents they would require in order for them to be able to remain in the United States. The class action was bolstered by sworn declarations from the detainees, including one from a 49-year-old man who arrived in the US from Mexico when he was just five years old, who, following a minor traffic violation was taken into and spent months in custody because he was unable to get legal assistance, primarily because of poor access to phones.

Lawyers say that this lack of access is a violation of the rights of detainees to be able to get a full and fair hearing under the US Constitution and federal law.
The provisions in the settlement include speed dials to let detainees make direct, free and unmonitored phone calls to immigration attorneys offering free legal help and government offices, with 40 phone booths to be distributed between the four lockups as well as private rooms for the calls.

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US Citizens do not get free phone access when detained!

Nor do they have the special privilege to use the telephone at free will!

Makes me nauseous!

Exactly right, lorrie. These stupid criminals demand stuff that Americans don't even get or have. I can't stand them. They are the biggest whiners, moochers, crybabies, sob story filled bunch of parasites in the world. They are disgusting to me, the whole mess, their belongings, their phone calls, their breeding, oh my God, it's just sickening.

I can not get ant thing may be I should go over to Mexico & then come back maybe I will get free phone this is BS

Originally Posted by Judy

Exactly right, lorrie. These stupid criminals demand stuff that Americans don't even get or have. I can't stand them. They are the biggest whiners, moochers, crybabies, sob story filled bunch of parasites in the world. They are disgusting to me, the whole mess, their belongings, their phone calls, their breeding, oh my God, it's just sickening.

Could not of said it any better!

Originally Posted by southBronx

I can not get ant thing may be I should go over to Mexico & then come back maybe I will get free phone this is BS

That's easy.... when asked for name or ID, just hand a note that says 'Speak No English' and 'You are from Mexico'

It will be like celebrating X-mas in June.... Free Everything!