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.
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US Immigration system
From a humanitarian perspective, our fellow human beings, who migrate to support their families, continue to suffer at the hands of immigration policies that separate them from family members and drive them into remote parts of the American desert, sometimes to their deaths. This suffering should not continue.
Now is the time to address this pressing humanitarian issue which affects so many lives and undermines basic human dignity. Our society should no longer tolerate a status quo that perpetuates a permanent underclass of persons and benefits from their labor without offering them legal protections.
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