(AP/Judi Bottoni)
On Tuesday, 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.
In August, DHS Janet Napolitano announced that her agency would be conducting a review of the current system which holds detainees in about 300 jails across the country. Illegal alien detainees are held in the city or county in which they were arrested.
Napolitano also wants to look into removing some convicted criminal aliens from prisons and placing them in these new facilities.
According to Napolitano, next year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement will begin ranking illegal alien detainees by the flight risk and danger they pose to the public, and issue bids for new facilities (hotels).
The Washington Post has reported that beginning this month, John T. Morton, assistant secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement will meet with contractors to discuss converting residential facilities to house nonviolent detainees. Morton also said that within six months, his agency will begin a medical classification system to help detainees with their healthcare needs.
As of September 1, 2009, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was detaining 31,075 criminal alien detainees, half of whom are felons.
*Reporter’s note: What this amounts to is creating housing projects 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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These special interest lobbyists are well organized in the Democratic Senate and House to undermine any enforcement of immigration laws, including the 1986 (IRCA) that is a law that was never enforced. Same day Sen.David Vitter offered an amendment to sever Federal funds to SANCTUARY CITIES AND STATES, but as always they failed to observe the "Rule of Law." The vote went along party lines except for three Republicans who voted with the Democrats to table the amendment. One Democrat voted against the motion - Landrieu (LA). Even though we can throw the conspirators out, when they come up for re-election it will have little effect? Even though they lose their seats, they will be reimbursed by their corporate friends with nice civilian desk jobs, with bloated pay checks.
The House-Senate committees has completed its funding in the Homeland Security Appropriations bill as of yesterday, undermining long-term security of unemployed American workers. They omitted the language that would have implemented the E-Verify application on a permanent basis to eject illegal workers. Instead, the conference extended the agreement limits of reauthorization for just three years. Even as E-Verify is gaining in nationwide popularity in businesses, the politicians are still catering to illegal immigrants. A assessment to extend E-Verify for only three more years is further evidence that Sen. Reid and the administration's effort, to raise a façade, but all the while dismantling effectual controls against immigration invasion. So although the open border organization, headed by quasi-leadership of the Council of Foreign Relations, US Chamber of Commerce and anti American organizations such as the ACLU, La Raza didn't win in Federal Court they still determined to corrode th
This is PC out of control. If the Feds need space to house illegals before deportation, maybe they need to speak with Sheriff Joe Arpio in AZ. He can show them how to set up tent prisons in the desert for very little $ and no security problems as they would be miles from anyone. But that would make too much sense, so forget that.
I say put them into the same hotels congress uses when they are in DC. Maybe put a few in the Lincoln Bedroom?
Hail, Hail, the illegal immigrants! Long may they cut our grass and stand on street corners waiting for a job!
I HAVE A HOTEL BUILT IN 1905 WITH 38 ROOMS NEEDS LOTS OF WORK, NEW PLUMBING WIRING HEAT AND SHEET METAL. HELL I COULD GET FREE TAX PAYER MONEY TO FIX UP THE BUILDING AND THEN CONTRACT WITH THE FEDS TO RENT OUT MY ROOMS AND THE BEST PART IS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND AMERICAN TAX PAYERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE. WOW WHAT A GREAT DEAL FOR ME. THANKS OBAMA YA DA MAN EM EM EM.
So does this mean there will be citizens of the U.S. getting jobs as maids and maintenance workers for the detainees?? Thats ironic isn't it? When I was a kid I snuck out of my house by the second floor window and jumped. When I got home I was busted and my parents made me come in the house the same way I came in. Private prisons and jails charge inmates for their stay. Is anyone going to charge these people? These hotels should be used to house the homeless. These detainees shouldn't be detained for long. They should be deported quickly. They shouldn't be granted a lawyer, social worker, or a translator at our expense. They paid thousands to get here to a coyote but refuse to pay to stay here.
I wish before people ranted and displayed both their ignorance of US law and their xenophobia, that they'd take a moment to research the issue. If they did, they'd quickly realize that when ICE detains someone regarding immigration status it is civil and NOT criminal detention.
IF OBAMA OR SOETOREO GETS HIS WAY? THEY WILL BE PUT IN LOWRENT HOUSEING GET WELFARE CHECKS AND FOOD STAMPS AND FREE MEDICAL? WHY THATS WHAT HIS AUNTIE GOT MY MY MY. AND JUST THINK LEGAL TAXPAYING CITIZENS GET TO FLIP THE BILL MY MY MY AGAIN. NOW DOES THAT MAKE ALL REAL AMERICANS HAPPY THIS IS JUST THE STARTING?
Oust Obama!!! That is American tax dollars he keeps throwing at nothing.
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