The Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet
Napolitano,
expresses her
concern for packing all immigrant detainees into "prison-like circumstances" when not all of these immigrants are violent. Homeland Security officials suggest,
Nonviolent immigrant detainees could be held in converted hotels, nursing homes or placed in electronic ankle bracelets for monitoring as part of a series of reforms planned for the nation's detention system.
The facilities these immigrants are kept in do not all need to look like something out of a prison movie. I'm sure many of these people are extremely afraid about what is going to happen to them
because it is apparent that they are in some sort of trouble.
Napolitano explains,
It's obviously encouraging that the administration seems to be taking seriously the immigration detention system and how it needs an overhaul. But it's not simply about where people are detained. It's about how they ended up in detention and why they are staying there.
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