U.S. authorities are transferring into federal prisons about 1,600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees.
Officials told Reuters Thursday that this is the first large-scale use of federal prisons to hold detainees amid a Trump administration crackdown on people entering the country illegally.
An ICE spokeswoman told Reuters that five federal prisons will temporarily take in detainees awaiting civil immigration court hearings, including potential asylum seekers, with one prison in Victorville, California, preparing to house 1,000 people.
Officials of a prison employees’ union said the influx of ICE detainees raises questions about prison staffing and safety.
That’s going on since 2003 in Arizona and California a man without a criminal record is house with a man that’s doing life
That is crazy. Di world is free fi di ppl a fi wee own and di ppl in control a try and control by force… give di ppl dem di resources suh we can survive an feed dem families.
Where’s Kim? :hammer Seriously though, I mean this in the nicest way possible; the ultimate goal is deportation, so why not just do it. I would beg to return home. Prisons are for hardened criminals, not undocumented/illegal immigrants. When the govt behaves lawless, I wonder if they don’t realize that it trickles down to the people as well.