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Exclusive tour of California immigration facility contradicts claims of inhumane conditions, overcrowding, Fox News, By Griff Jenkins, July 26, 2019
A law library. Access to 24-hour health care and mental care. Outdoor soccer fields.
An exclusive look inside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center revealed scenes dramatically at odds with claims the facilities are poorly run and the scenes of misery and overcrowding.
Fox News was given rare access to an immigration detention facility in Adelanto, Calif. Video cameras were allowed inside. The ICE facility, just one of 31 such centers in the U.S., is run by privately contracted company GEO Group.
During a tour led by Thomas Giles, acting director of ICE’s Los Angeles field office, Fox News observed detainees had access to 24-hour health care, dental care, mental health care, unlimited phone calls, legal advice, a law library, physical-contact visitations, outdoor recreation and religious services seven days a week. (Continues)
However, anyone paying attention to the history of accommodations for America’s invaders wouldn’t be surprised by the luxury which was reported at least as early as 2012.
The Karnes City Texas center was so over the top that in 2012, the House Immigration Subcommittee investigated the $30 million spent on the Karnes facility in a hearing called Holiday on ICE.
Chairman of the full House Judiciary Committee Lamar Smith remarked during the hearing:
Among the new amenities, the Karnes City facility contains a library with free Internet access, cable TV, an indoor gym with basketball courts, soccer fields, and sand, and that is for beach volleyball. Instead of guards, unarmed ‘‘resident advisors’’ patrol the grounds. And the cost of the complex: over $30 million taxpayer dollars. . .
This hearing is entitled, ‘‘Holiday on ICE,’’ because ICE has decided to upgrade accommodations for detained illegal and criminal immigrants. While we would all like to be upgraded, we do not have the luxury of billing American taxpayers or making Federal law enforcement agencies our concierge.
Below, the Karnes Library includes books and the internet in a comfy setting.
Karnes also had racks of free new clothes with the tags still attached for the illegal kiddies.
Greta van Susteren was outraged at the luxury and cost of the facility — $140 per resident daily x 532 detainees = $74,500 per day total:
When the US jail is nicer than the homes of illegal aliens, why would they stop coming? Obviously Americans are rich and generous toward foreigners, even invaders — that’s the encouraging message the aliens are getting from the excessive TLC. Negative reinforcement is needed, not these constant rewards for lawbreaking.
Finally, another reaction to Griff Jenkins’ report came from Sabine Durden, whose son Dominic was killed by a drunk-driving illegal alien with previous arrests. She recognized the facility as the one where her son’s killer was housed in deluxe accommodations.
She also objected to Adelanto’s opulence for lawbreakers, remarking, “They shouldn’t have that kind of luxury. We have American citizens out on the street that wish they could stay there for a weekend. I know this one thing, that illegal aliens whether they get caught or they just sneak in and don’t get caught, it’s a win-win for them. In Adelante they go to Club Med; they get their dental, medical issues taken care of. If they don’t get caught, they work under the table, make tax-free money and send it back — while American citizens don’t have that. It’s not fair: they should have three warm meals and get out of this country, deported swiftly.”
Sabine Durden spoke at Donald Trump’s Republican Convention about victims of illegal alien crime.
Smith is concerned that President Trump’s amnesty proposal is deeply flawed because a vital [...]]]>
Smith is concerned that President Trump’s amnesty proposal is deeply flawed because a vital workplace component is missing. Plus, the amnesty now enforcement later pattern is doomed to failure, as we should have learned from the 1986 debacle.
Spare audio file:
HARRIS FAULKNER: Congressman you’ve been making news with something you said about the president’s immigration proposal, and I want to step in and just push in on that: you’re not in favor of amnesty. Is that what you think the president is proposing?
REP. LAMAR SMITH: Yes, he is actually proposing amnesty for twice as many people as President Obama did a couple of years ago, and in fact he’s adding citizenship on top of that. But the real concerns I have about this proposal is that it, one, does not include E-Verify which is a workforce verification system that says employers can only hire legal workers in the United States and that protects jobs for American workers, and that will also reduce illegal immigration if illegal immigrants can’t get these jobs. So that was a glaring omission in my judgment.
The other flaw is that it has amnesty today but the legal immigration reforms don’t take place until a distant tomorrow, in some cases 17 years from now. [Editor: Chain migration would not end for 17 years.] You can guess the likelihood of that occurring. So it’s amnesty today, many legal immigration reforms tomorrow. It doesn’t have work force verification, and also it’s really an invitation to fraud, it’s ripe for fraud because they’re going to allow a lot of adult illegal immigrants to apply under the DACA program to get amnesty: they may be 30 years old. They’re going to say ‘Oh yeah we came into the country when we were younger, when we were children or teenagers,’ and there’s not going to be any way to check that to confirm that. So it is ripe for fraud as well, and I think for those reasons we need to take a long hard look and I hope revised it in a number of ways.
FAULKNER: Look, if this is the bottom line for this president, and no matter what you call it, amnesty or anything else, if he chooses to go forward and lead in this particular manner with this proposal, are there enough Republicans like you who would say no to this to sink it?
SMITH: I think there are enough Republicans and Democrats who have concerns about that proposal right now that it will force either a withdrawal of the proposal, or it’ll force us to to start over again and in my view, put more structural reforms in it: better secure the border, have legal immigration reform start a lot earlier than 17 years from now, and then we can talk about what to do with the individuals who are in this country, who came in as children and who are still here but that’s a narrow group with individuals who have been approved, that’s only about 700,000. This proposal gives amnesty to almost two million, twice as many as President Obama did.
FAULKNER: And some of these people are potentially in your border state of Texas.
SMITH: I’m sure a lot of them are in almost any state, but what we need to remember is that America is the most generous country in the world. We admit 1 million people legally every year; there’s a right way and a wrong way to come into this country, and the right way is to apply as millions have done before you. Apply, wait your turn in line and come in when you’re admitted, not cut in front of the line, not coming to the country at the expense of American workers and taxpayers, but play play by the rules. We’re the most generous country in the world; you will be admitted if you play by the rules.
FAULKNER: Congressman Smith, is this at a point where you step in and this becomes a bargaining chip now, this E-Verify?
SMITH: I hope it’s more than a bargaining chip. . .
FAULKNER: Can you insert it into the conversation is what I’m saying.
SMITH: Absolutely, E-Verify should be a part of the conversation, and it’s the most popular immigration reform with the American people: 82 percent support E-Verify, this workforce verification. I have no good reason why it’s not in this proposal.
Perhaps E-Verify is not in the proposal because it would work.
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