The Houston Chronicle has reported the details of an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement email, that though seem laughable, have been confirmed by an ICE official. The email lists changes which have been ordered at several immigration detainment centers…changes that will make the facilities seem more like extended-stay hotels than jails.
Beth Gibson, ICE's senior counselor to Assistant Secretary John Morton confirmed the changes, and reports that much of the new policy will be implemented within the next 30 days at detainment centers from California to New Jersey.
Gibson defended the changes, saying: “When people come to our custody, we're detaining them to effect their removal. It's about deportation. It's not about punishing people for a crime they committed.”
The changes include:
-hanging plants
-free movement for detainees
-longer visiting hours
-replacing guards with “unit managers”
-allowing detainees to wear their own clothing
-email access
-free phone service
-dance classes
-movie nights
-art classes
-cooking classes
-tutoring and computer training
-self-serve beverage stations
-fresh vegetable bars
In addition to the new amenities, ICE also plans to reduce or even eliminate pat-down searches, which raises particular concern for Tre Rebstock, president for Local 3332, the ICE union in Houston.
Rebstock told the Houston Chronicle: “Our biggest concern is that someone is going to get hurt.”
Rebstock continued: “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. And yet these guys are getting it on the taxpayers' dime.”
In October 2009, the Department of Homeland Security announced plans to use converted hotels and nursing homes to house some illegal aliens, rather than keeping them in jails under the current system.
That same month, The Washington Post reported that John T. Morton, assistant secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement would meet with contractors to discuss converting residential facilities to house nonviolent detainees. Morton also said that within six months, his agency would begin a medical classification system to help detainees with their healthcare needs.
Last year, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that ICE would begin ranking illegal alien detainees, even criminally convicted aliens by the flight risk and danger they pose to the public, and issue bids for new facilities (hotels).
As of September 1, 2009, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was detaining 31,075 criminal aliens, half of whom are felons.
What this amounts to is creating housing projects and all-inclusive resorts for illegal aliens, all at the expense of the American taxpayer, and while Obama continues to claim that he does not plan to extend healthcare benefits to illegal aliens, the facts continue to say otherwise.
All of this is simply laying the groundwork for an amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens currently inside this country.
It is more than outrageous that during the worst economic period this nation has experienced since the Great Depression, when Americans are losing their jobs and homes in record numbers, that we are now being forced to pay for illegal aliens to live in hotels.
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Civil War is coming folks, it's really that simple.
Obama promised he would change America, he has, he will continue to so do, and the reaction of the American people is not going to be placid.
Millions can't get health care, jobs, or decent places to stay, and these Wetbacks are being served up First Class service on the taxpayers' dime.
Things are coming to a head, and the arrogant elitist bureaucrats in D.C. have nary a clue.
November will be just a precursor.....stay tuned.
Cheers.
Each Criminal Alien should be fed MRE's and then only after they have completed 8 hours hard labor building the border fence. MRE's are good enough for our troops. No phone, no TV, No access to any media whatsoever. These Criminals are foreign invaders who steal straight from the mouths of American children.
Shouldn't this article have a link to the Chron.com story it's supposed to be based on?
But we are killing brown people there, so who cares, right?
If we could just get the quality of the, ahem, 'work' of a bunch of illegals up to that of the worst, most overpaid government contractor out there, we SHOULD put them to work building us a wall before we release them back into Mexico. Then we do it again and again, until the same bunch of sorry dumbasses is so good at building walls that they can start their own construction company and make some positive economic impact, immigrate and get rich. That or a $1 bullet to the head and a trip to the local hog pen...
That's the least they can do to help the people that are arrested illegally. Give them amnesty just like all the illegal from Europe got and let them work.
Killing brown people? Guess you turn a blind eye to the innumerable drunken car crashes and Hispanic killers killing blacks, whites et al. Brown people's lower IQs means that they will NEVER contribute in the same percentage as whites and asians to the science and engineering professions that once gave the US economy it's depth. In short, allowing anchor babies to stay is economic suicide.
Did any one see through the destroyer when he was running for Pres.? He is out to destroy America and its inners. When he was voted in I celebrated a funeral for this country. Looks like its going to be a little sooner then later, but its still not too late we can make a change in Nov. to start with and if we don't then we deserve what we get as simple as that. Vote the bums out.
The combined efforts of the US and Mexican elitists are attempting to instigate border warfare. Now once this plan of strategy has been accepted by both sides,guerrilla forces within the US will begin selecting key targets of our infrastructure, for destruction along with chaos,manipulation and control through a series of attacks. Then martial law will be declared but whose going to manage the situation when our military is preoccupied elsewhere? Heres a hint the UNITED NATIONS...alias THE NEW WORLD ORDER...
The pro-illegal mouthpieces would say you're making this stuff up, even though it's reported in a so-called legitimate news outlet and taken from DHS and ICE sources. Some folks will overlook the obvious cause and effect here: Keep voting for Democrats, and have criminals coddled! You can't get them to wake up with anything short of a two-by-four! None other than a state rep known for illegal-alien pandering here in MA was rear-ended by an illegal doing 65mph on a local street. That's Karma for you!
I USED TO CALL OBAMA OR SOETOREO A USED CAR SALESMAN OR A GOOD CARNY? I TAKE THAT BACK HE STARTED OUT SLICK AS EVER THEN STARTED SLIPPING EVERY STEP OF THE WAY? EVERYTHING CROOKED AND CORRUPT AND UNAMERICAN IS COMEING OUT FOR THE AMERICAN PUBLIC TO SEE?LIKE TAKEING A ROLAID THANK GOODNESS>> A LEGAL CITIZEN>>>
JR, I hope so. Lock and load!
If Obama gets his anti-American way, how hard would it be to renounce your citizenship in Mexico and then illegally cross the border and then DEMAND everything I need to live a comfortable life in America from all you citizens?
DAMN!!!! Thats better then the motels I can afford!!!!
Sandy Holmes says:
That's the least they can do to help the people that are arrested illegally. Give them amnesty just like all the illegal from Europe got and let them work. \
One word come to mind when I read this.
FOOL!
AMMO the currency for the new millennium.
More of our tax dollars at work by the Fraud in Chief! IMPEACH OBAMA!
I can't wait 'til this numb digger is gone!!!!!!!!
They should make them take mandatory English class, So they can at least Thank us in our own language for our hospitality as we escort them back to their country, which they will stay in 2 seconds cause they had it made here for free in "prison"
It's all about votes!
It's all about the votes!
Would we have those privileges in Mexico if we entered their country without the proper documentation???
This board deletes comments. My comment which was second and the first comment, by someone else, have been deleted. I came to Examiner because of mainstream media propaganda funny business. I guess I'll have to leave here because they delete comments.
I really thought that this was a joke when I first heard report of it. If it weren't so pathetic it would be laughable. Our "own" American prisoners do NOT get hanging plants, free phone calls, veggie bars, nor dance lessons.........nor do THEY DESERVE ANY of them. I urge anyone who does not think that our ILLEGAL immigrants warrants such pussy-fied treatment while in jail to please contact ALL Congressmen/women. If by some chance you happen to think it's such a great idea: I have a monthly phone bill, I'd like you to pay for me. Pathetic!
Its a shame when we have our own homeless and they have for entertainment sharing the sounds of motor cars over bridges, the landscape of garbage as thier art and food they must beg for. Our schools are closing and our children are missing out on education because there are no funds.....What a shame....
What is this stupid Bet Gibson saying? These illegal invaders didn't commit any crime? How about invading OUR country illegally? What are we holding them for anyway? It should be "Arrest & IMMEDIATE Deportation"! Pull my brother Marines out of the middle east & put them on our southern border with live ammo & direct orders to use it (including on the joke of a mexican army who are nothing more than protection for drug runners)! Kill 'em ALL!
From day one obama has set out to conquer and destroy our country. Never ending mess. Hopefully it'll be over and our new elected officials can straighten some of this mess out and then we can honestly say " OBAMA DID IT"!!
I hate to say it, but Obama is a jerk. I can't wait until his term is up, because I doubt he will be re-elected. If I have to obey the laws of this country, so does everyone else. We should be setting down the law, that we will not tolerate people coming into our country illegally and taking advantage of us. Instead, this idiot administration rolls out the red carpet for lawbreakers. Unbelievable! We, the American citizens, need to send a message loud and clear to our reps, that we want our borders patrolled and this immigration mess stopped, or they won't have jobs!
my husband has skin cancer and he has no insurance so he suffers with it .no one is offering him anything free . where does obama get off giving illegals and criminals anything excect a jail sentence or a free ride home. just maybe obama should be sent home to where he was born kenya
All the government want is more money for themselves.they do not care about liberty as the war for the government oil mongers.then the illegal aliens own the cities killing police officers and innocent people but the government does not care they are sickening .they should arm the police with powerful armory so they can battle on even terms.America is in a downward spiral
How long has our government completely ignored our border
security, this is nothing new. Each administration has
failed to secure our borders. George W. Bush completely
ignored the request of American citizens to close our borders,
even after 911! He willfully and stubbornly refused to listen
to all of the requests to release, Agents Ignacio Ramos and
Jose Alonso Compean, and it continues with this administration.
It has nothing to do with parties! anyone who thinks it does needsto wake up to the realization that a high majority of these leaders have no thought or concern for the average American citizen.
they are here ILLEGALLY. entering the country without proper documentation IS A CRIME. they are criminals! omg... when is that idiot who some voted president going to use that organ between his ears?
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