aarti shahani
GRITtv: Obama's "Civil Detention System"
The Obama administration has said that it wants to create a ?truly civil detention system.? Orwellian or earnest? Aarti Shahani founder of Families for Freedom and lead author of the Justice Strategies report, ?Local Democracy on ICE? discusses the Obama administration?s plan and the closure of the T. Don Hutto detention center in Texas.
Email this pageGRITtv: Aarti Shahani on Janet Napolitano's Law and Order Extremism
Aarti Shahani, founder of Families for Freedom, discusses a recent decision by the Office of Homeland Security and Janet Napolitano to recruit 11 additional localities into the federal program, known as ICE, that turns traffic cops and jail guards into deportation agents. Shahani says that Napolitano is in fact a law and order extremist and that the ruling wasn't a total surprise. But what does it mean for the Obama administration's immigration policy?
