MagentaCandle said:
Here are two videos of an "internment camp" in Texas:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TxYxTly-yo8&feature=related
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mntQogvuRI8&feature=related
The privatized Hutto "jail", which is also administered by Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), contains more than just people who came over the boarder illegally.
They don't have legal status. I wish we could provide safety and shelter to everyone in the world but we can't. They are just going to have to be patient and wait for the bureaucracy to run its course.
MagentaCandle said:
In fact, here is an article about palestinian refugees and CHILDREN being held in that camp:
http://www.counterpunch.org/moses12192006.html
In fact, Most of them are families including pregnant women and children who have never been accused of any wrongdoing but are forced to endure squalid conditions inside literal concentration camps.
Unfortunately, yes, some families come here without a provision for obtaining legal status. What do you want the Feds to do? Put them up at the Holiday Inn?
Squalid? Some guy's toilet needs to be plunged? Are you kidding me? "literal concentration camps..." --- dude, read a book about the Holocaust.
MagentaCandle said:
Allied to the burgeoning growth of the prison industry and future plans to detain American citizens on masse ...
Uh huh. You're a fearmongering conspiracy theorist, preying on the gullible for pleasure or profit --- I don't care which. I bet you'll still be selling this in twenty years, saying it's going to happen "any minute."
MagentaCandle said:
...new plans have revived the potential scope of the camp, and a new contract to intern 600 individuals was finalized with immigration authorities in December 2005.
The facility is euphemistically called a "Residential Center," yet charges of overcrowding and poor conditions are rife, with an estimated 645 people filling a facility that has only 512 beds, as this article from the Texas Civil Rights Review clearly states -
http://texascivilrightsreview.org/phpnuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=708
Newsflash: Prison crowding is a problem all over the country --- even for people that are here legally.
MagentaCandle said:
Innocent children should not be jailed and forced to live under traumatizing and dehumanizing conditions. Plain and simple.
Of course not. But what do you want us to do? Split the families up? Hopefully, they'll all be shipped back home soon. We just can't take everybody. I wish we could, we just can't.
If you call Chertoff up and give him a plausible alternative, I think he will take it.
MagentaCandle said:
Suspicions will undoubtedly be cast as to whether the facility in Tyler is part of a wider agenda to set up a network of internment camps that will be used to forcibly detain American citizens under emergency provisions.
Don't be suspicious. If (God forbid) it becomes necessary, it is a certainty that any miscreants will be locked up somewhere.
MagentaCandle said:
And I think all Americans should be concerned when these camps are popping up everywhere.
People, please. The government can eventually use them for whatever they want to. How many need to be built before we all stop them?
You haven't made a case for stopping them. In fact, it seems like you've made a case for expanding them.