Could it be that the illegal aliens not migrants, are doing something illegal and therefore need to sneak and hide.

This article is misleading and dishonest as is most of the debate. These peopl eare not migrants, they are here illegally, their deaths in the desert or at sea or where ever they try to cross to their own fault, they took the risk. They choose to risk their lives instead of obeying the law and waiting in line for legal immergration.

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ICE Northwest Detention Center - docushort

"The Northwest Detention Center is a private immigration prison facility located on the tide flats of Tacoma, Washington. The detention center opened in 2004 under a contract with The US Department of Homeland Security, Though owners have changed over time, the facility is now owned by the GEO Group Which operates prison facilities in Australia, The UK, South Africa, the US and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

A contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the largest and primary investigative branch of Homeland Security, expanded the facility's housing capacity 1,000 detainees, making it the largest detention center owned by GEO Group on the West Coast of the United States.

In 2003 the ICE launched Operation End Game, the largest police operation in US history, to remove all undocumented migrants from the US by the year 2012. The project's predecessor, Operation Wetback in 1954, removed 1.2 million Mexicans from the American Southwest.

ICE does not need warrants to make arrests or to conduct raids. Since July 2007, raids have increased the number of detained migrants from 18,000 to 26,000 nationwide. Homeland Security relocates 700 detainees a week in the United States.

Migrants in the facility are mostly from the Northwest regions of Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Washington. Due to the increase in raids they've recently come from places like New York, Puerto Rico and Guam. ICE agents move the detainees to the facility under the cover of night.

Nationwide tens of thousands of children every year lose a parent to deportation. 85% percent of those detained don't have legal counsel, since they do not have a right to due process or protections against unlawful searches or seizures.

After raids in the Northwest rounded up hundreds of migrant workers at a time from places like Auburn, Washington and Portland, Oregon, a protest in solidarity with the No Borders Camp actions in Arizona took place at the same time in Tacoma.

The march was focused not at the facility itself, which is tucked away unnoticed amongst shipping terminals and superfund sites, but at the Wells Fargo Bank building, which invests in the GEO Group's operations worldwide. The march was labeled a homeland security threat, and policed heavily. Police with cameras and less than lethal weapons intimidated protesters, and suggested that local landlords evict the protest organizers from their homes.

The march occupied an intersection for more than ten minutes, circling from crosswalk to crosswalk until police used force. One woman taking pictures was arrested for spitting on the ground, and then intimidated by police and bystanders.

Another was arrested for disarming an officer, though that charge was later dropped. In front of the Wells Fargo Bank, another arrest occurred.

As raids at jobs sites increased over the last years, members in the community seemed to have noticed little. As purges in accordance with End Game increase, the Tacoma activist community is attempting to increase awareness about the facility's proximity and what it stands for."
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about an article such as this? 66 people died while in ICE custody, but when you consider how many people die in prison facilities around this nation due to conditions or treatment, it is, unfortunately, not all that large a number in relation to the number of occupants in such facilities. It works out to just over 15 people per year out of 10's of thousands incarcerated in such facilities every year. Yes, it is sad, but it is not justification for shutting down one of the only defense organizations this nation has left to it to stop terrorist entry into this country or to protect American jobs and wages.

As for the question of illegal immigration as a whole, I can assure you that the number of Mexicans and Latin Americans who die coming across the Southwest deserts at the hands of "coyotes" every year far exceeds the 66 over a 4 year period who died in detention. I know of some ranches along the border that find between 5 and 8 bodies a week shot on their properties by the monsters who pray on them or the drug lords who want to protect their loads. Add those numbers up and then allow for the hundreds who die every month after being left to dehydrate in the desert each summer or locked in shipping containers or big rigs that are abandoned by the smugglers and you begin to see how small a number 66 in 4 years really is in the scheme of things. I notice that no one has noted, including the author, whether the deaths were related to inmate-on-inmate violence or the actions of guards or others, so blaming ICE who transfers custody to these facilities, is just plain ludicrous.

Now, I know many of you will attack my comments (I expect Joshua Holland will be among them) but please consider this: If this country enforced the laws currently on the books vigorously; actually helped countries re-establish their economic bases which our policies probably destroyed so that coming here was not an option; and if illegal immigrants (that is ILLEGAL, NOT LEGAL)and their supporters would stop trying to overthrow our laws to suit themselves, we might be able to have a reasonable discussion on this issue, find reasonable solutions, and then shut down such holding facilities.

Why are we allowing people who the minute they come into this country for the purpose of working and living in violation of our laws on immigration have committed a crime to dictate to us what we can and cannot do to them to resolve the problem? Oh, yeah, I forgot, they have anchor children that they use to force us to allow them to stay. I find this use of a child totally and completely repugnant, both as a parent and as a citizen. When we return parents to their homelands, they should be allowed to take their children with them with the understanding that the child has dual citizenship and may re-enter the country legally at age 18.

I am sorry that 66 illegal immigrants died in detention facilities. I am sorry for their families as well. I am sorry that 15 people a year had to die because they wanted to come here to live and work. BUT, until we start telling the countries from which these people come that we will no longer tolerate this invasion, and that we will be sending them a bill for the care of their citizens in such facilities until such time as they are repatriated, people are going to die, just as they do in any other prison facility in the world (perhaps not as frequently, however, as in the prison of some of their homelands). It is sad, it is unnecessary, but it is also inevitable when you put people in prisons. But to shut down the only law enforcement agency that currently stands against illegal immigration for the actions of a private company who runs the prison or the actions of the inmates themselves, that is just plain crazy.

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