Ahead of ICE raids, Illinois governor bans private immigrant detention centers from state

With mass raids by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) planned for Sunday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) signed a bill Friday that will make his state the first in the country to ban private immigration detention centers.

“Illinois is and always will be a welcoming state,” said Gov. JB Pritzker in a statement on Friday. “Let me be perfectly clear: the state of Illinois stands as a firewall against Donald Trump’s attacks on our immigrant communities. In the face of attempts to stoke fear, exploit division, and force families into the shadows, we are taking action.”

The ICE raids — known as “family op” — are scheduled to begin before dawn on Sunday in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York and San Francisco.

They will target up to 2,000 families who have already received deportation orders.

According to the Washington Post, acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan has urged ICE to narrow the raids to just 150 families who abandoned legal proceedings after being provided with attorneys.

These raids will likely result in additional family separation, and the arrest of many people who have not been presented with deportation orders — something ICE considers “collateral arrests.”

The Washington Post reports that ICE plans to temporarily house the immigrants it rounds up in hotels. Increasingly, ICE has begun relying on private, for-profit detention centers to hold immigrants, which is why Pritzker decided to push forward this legislation prohibiting such facilities from operating in Illinois. The bills he signed on Friday also prohibit local law enforcement agencies from cooperating with ICE, and allows undocumented students to receive MAP grants for college.

“We will not allow private entities to profit off of the intolerance of this president. We will not allow local police departments act as an extension of ICE,” Pritzker said. “And we will ensure that every student in this state who wants to go to college should be able to do so without saddling themselves with debt for the rest of their lives.”

Many democratic presidential candidates have spoken out against these planned raids.

“Deporting hundreds of families—separating more children from their parents in the process—is inhumane,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tweeted on Friday. “Our immigration policies should reflect America’s values, not betray them.”

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said, “Millions of people will enter this weekend filled with fear. Children who are U.S. citizens will wonder if their mothers will be ripped from home in the pre-dawn hours before church on Sunday. And why? So Trump can vilify immigrants as part of a political campaign. It’s shameful.”

On Saturday, President Donald Trump defended his plan on Twitter.

“The people that Ice will apprehend have already been ordered to be deported. This means that they have run from the law and run from the courts. These are people that are supposed to go back to their home country. They broke the law by coming into the country, & now by staying,” he said.

UPDATE: On Saturday afternoon, Trump announced via Twitter that he was cancelling the ICE raids until the July 4th holiday weekend “to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get together and work out a solution to the Asylum and Loophole problems at the Southern Border.”

CtotheW on June 22nd, 2019 at 18:21 UTC »

What about for profit prisons?

DankMemeProfessor on June 22nd, 2019 at 18:01 UTC »

- 4 Severely Ill Migrant Toddlers Hospitalized After Lawyers Visit Border Patrol Facility

The kids were unresponsive, feverish and vomiting, yet receiving no medical care, according to lawyers.

One 2-year-old’s eyes were rolled back in her head, and she was “completely unresponsive” and limp, according to Toby Gialluca, a Florida-based attorney.

- A group of 250 infants, children and teens has reportedly spent 27 days without adequate food, water and sanitation at a U.S. Border Patrol facility near El Paso, according to the Associated Press.

Several attorneys who visited the station said they found at least 15 children sick with the flu, some of whom were being kept in medical quarantine.

They described seeing a sick and diaper-less 2-year-old boy whose “shirt was smeared in mucus.” Three girls, from the ages of 10 to 15, were taking turns watching him.

- Watchdog finds detainees 'standing on toilets' for breathing room at border facility holding 900 people in space meant for 125

"We also observed detainees standing on toilets in the cells to make room and gain breathing space, thus limiting access to the toilets," the report states. The report was first obtained by CNN.

A cell with a maximum capacity of 12 held 76 detainees, another with a maximum capacity of eight held 41, and another with a maximum capacity of 35 held 155, according to the report

- Teen Mom And Prematurely Born Baby Neglected At Border Patrol Facility For 7 Days

The baby, barely a month old, was wrapped in a dirty towel, wore a soiled onesie and looked listless, said one of the lawyers, Hope Frye. The mother was in a wheelchair due to complications from her emergency C-section and had barely slept ― the pain made it too uncomfortable for her to lie down and she was afraid of dropping her baby, the immigration and human rights attorney said.

- An Expert on Concentration Camps Says That's Exactly What the U.S. Is Running at the Border

"Things can be concentration camps without being Dachau or Auschwitz."

- DHS watchdog finds spoiled food, nooses at multiple immigration detention centers

OIG described the food service issues at Adelanto and Essex as “egregious.” At Adelanto, “lunch meat and cheese were mixed and stored uncovered inlarge walk-in refrigerators,” while chicken “smelled foul and appeared to be spoiled.” Food in the freezer was also expired. At Essex, “open packages of raw chicken leaked blood all over refrigeration units” and “lunch meat was slimy, foulsmelling and appeared to be spoiled.”

At the facility’s bathrooms, OIG observed mold throughout all the walls in the bathroom area, including ceilings, vents, mirrors, and showerstalls. Prolonged exposure to mold and mildew can lead to allergic reactions and long-term health issues.

“The report’s findings reveal that issues in ICE detention are not isolated — they are systemic,”

- Thousands of Immigrant Children Said They Were Sexually Abused in U.S. Detention Centers, Report Says

The federal government received more than 4,500 complaints in four years about the sexual abuse of immigrant children who were being held at government-funded detention facilities, including an increase in complaints while the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant families at the border was in place, the Justice Department revealed this week.

- 'Evil': Worst Fears Realized as ICE Arrests Dozens of Family or Guardians Attempting to Retrieve Children From Detention

- ICE facility in the middle of chicken pox outbreak has one doctor to treat 1,500 detainees, congressman says

An immigration detention facility in Aurora, Colorado, has just one in-house physician treating its 1,500-plus detainees amid a chicken pox outbreak and a confirmed case of mumps, according to a U.S. congressman. And when the legislator tried to visit the facility Wednesday, he was turned away.

- ICE Blames “Processing Delays” For Keeping Migrant Kids in a Hot Van for 2 Nights

Last July, 37 migrant children who had been separated from their parents at the border were driven to a detention center in Los Fresnos, Texas, to be reunited with their families. Before that could happen, though, the children were forced to wait nearly two days in a van, according to emails obtained by NBC News.

- Trump administration cancels English classes, soccer, legal aid for unaccompanied child migrants in U.S. shelters

- Trump’s pick for ICE director: I can tell which migrant children will become gang members by looking into their eyes

- Children held at the Shiloh Treatment Center, a government contractor south of Houston that houses immigrant minors, described being held down and injected, according to federal court filings.

One child was prescribed 10 different shots and pills, including the antipsychotic drugs Latuda, Geodon and Olanzapine, the Parkinson’s medication Benztropine, the seizure medications Clonazepam and Divalproex, the nerve pain medication and antidepressant Duloxetine, and the cognition enhancer Guanfacine.

Immigrants Are Being Forced To Sleep Outside On The Ground At This Texas Facility: "Why Do They Treat Us Like This?"

People who were held at the McAllen Border Patrol site told BuzzFeed News adults and children had to sleep outside on dirt and grass. Families were also forced to wake up hours before dawn for a head count, with agents rousing children who managed to get a coveted space inside the tent to wait outside, they said.

That last quote brings back memories of basic training... except worse and being done to unwilling children.

Images of migrants, including children, sleeping outside with thermal blankets were first published by CNN, which got them from a source with access to the facility and who was “disturbed” by the conditions. In one photo, a woman is sitting on rocks, leaning on the side of the building, and clutching a baby. In another, a young girl is sleeping on the grass, a baby bottle inches from her feet.

8-Year-Old Migrants Being Forced to Care for Toddlers in Detention Camps

"A Border Patrol agent came in our room with a 2-year-old boy and asked us, 'Who wants to take care of this little boy?' Another girl said she would take care of him, but she lost interest after a few hours and so I started taking care of him yesterday," one teenaged girl told the lawyers in an interview. The lawyers saw the boy and reported that he was not wearing a diaper, had wet his pants and his shirt was covered in mucus.

So... we have people being locked in facilities without trial. Some are so overcrowded that people are forced to stand up. Food and water is spoiled, sexual abuse is rampant, and medical treatment is not adequately provided(1 doctor to treat 1500). The facilities themselves are riddled with mold. Men, Women, and children are forced to sleep outside and wake up before dawn for head counts, and will be punished for seeking shelter in tents. Children are being forced to take psychotropic drugs without consent (likely to make the population more easily manageable). Children are being held for longer durations than legally allowed, and family members are arrested for trying to retrieve their children. To prove how totally cool and legal these ``basically summer camps`` are, they deny oversight at any possible opportunity.

Don`t you dare call them concentration camps though

Edit:I made this earlier after a few drinks in 30 minutes on a r/worldnews post. Feel free to steal it and add more, theres plenty more examples I just ran out of time

GearsGrinding on June 22nd, 2019 at 17:30 UTC »

This is what States’ rights are for.

I hate that modern Republicans (generally speaking) have transformed the term “States’ rights” into a modern obstacle to progress instead of being a check to overreach from the Federal government.

States’ rights are for protecting people from the Federal government, not as another way to resist things like gay marriage.