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New detainment facility in Karnes City, Texas Credits: Courtesy of ICE (ICE.gov) |
Obama now providing salad bars and abortions to illegal aliens (at your expense)
In a few days, illegal aliens will begin arriving at a brand new federal detention center in Karnes City, Texas, but, this facility more closely resembles a college campus or summer camp than it does a federal prison.
In a few days, illegal aliens will begin arriving at a brand new federal detention center in Karnes City, Texas, but, this facility more closely resembles a college campus or summer camp than it does a federal prison.
This 608-bed facility sits on 29 acres, southeast of San Antonio and boasts a library with internet access, cable TV, basketball courts, a fitness center, soccer fields and even a dining facility complete with salad bar.
In a press release, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement describes the facility: “This civil detention center represents a first in the entire history of immigration detention. Karnes and others like it are one part of an ICE detention reform program that is sensible, sustainable and attentive to the unique needs of the individuals in our custody.”
And, as the Chicago Tribune reports, the guards will no longer be referred to as such, but will now be known as “resident advisors” (told you it sounded like college). Instead of their traditional uniforms, those “advisors” will now don less threatening polo shirts and khakis and more importantly… be unarmed. The cost to the taxpayers for the new facility?...$32-million.
A facility just like it will be built just outside Chicago and another in southern Florida, according to ICE officials.
It is all part of the Obama administration’s larger effort to improve the living conditions of detained illegal aliens awaiting deportation.
In June 2010, the Houston Chronicle reported the details of an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement email, that though seem laughable, were quickly confirmed by an ICE official.
Beth Gibson, ICE's senior counselor to Assistant Secretary John Morton, who confirmed the changes, reported that much of the new policy will be implemented within 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
-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
In addition to the new amenities, ICE has also reduced or in some cases, eliminated pat-down searches, which raised 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.
Also in 2009, 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).
Currently, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is detaining roughly 33,000 illegal aliens, about half of whom are felons.
As if providing free legal advice, bingo games and cable TV to those who come to this country illegally and commit other crimes while they are here was not enough…The Obama administration also supplies sex-change hormones to detained illegal aliens as well.
A 2010 investigation by the KHOU News team in Houston revealed that a number of illegal aliens incarcerated are receiving prescribed sex hormone at taxpayers’ expense.
In 2009, Jose Centeno was jailed by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detained after discovering a previous felony drug conviction. While he was detained, ICE prescribed and dispensed the hormone drug Premarin to the transgendered man.
Centeno, who now goes by the name “Krystal,” told KHOU: “I'm transgender so I am taking female hormones. It's not a choice, I was born, and I already knew I was born, in the wrong body, so it wasn't a choice -- I need those meds/hormone therapy to be who I am, but it's not a choice.”
ICE states that they do not keep accurate records on the number of transgendered detainees receiving hormone therapy…in other words, they will not tell us how much we spend every years on hormone therapy for criminal aliens.
However, some checking found that COSTO sells 100 tablets of Premarin (1.25 mg) for a price of $177.01, or $1.77 per pill.
Based on Costco’s price and a twice a day dosage, the transgender illegal alien costs the taxpayers an additional $637 for a six-month detention for their hormone therapy.
In late 2011, ICE announced an official policy in order to accommodate transgendered detainees.
Perhaps, most outrageous, ICE’s latest detainee guidelines even offer free abortions…
ICE’s 2011 Performance-Based National Detentions Standards states the following:
“A pregnant detainee in custody shall have access to pregnancy services including routine or specialized prenatal care, pregnancy testing, comprehensive counseling and assistance, postpartum follow up, lactation services and abortion services. (pg. 256)
Read the ICE guidelines in their entirety: http://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention-standards/2011/pbnds2011.pdf
The Obama administration is basically creating all-inclusive resorts for illegal aliens complete with free medical care, 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 fact is…he already does.
It is more than outrageous that during the worst economic period this nation has experienced since the Great Depression, as millions of Americans continue to face unemployment and lose their homes in record numbers, that we are now being forced to pay for illegal aliens to live more comfortably and be given the sort of medical care that by Obama’s own estimate—more than 40 million Americans cannot afford for themselves.
Also, read about Obama's first-ever taxpayer-funder "Public Advocate" for detained illegal aliens:
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