I had heard about Halliburton building detainee centers across the USA that each can hold about 5,000 folks. I wondered what that was all about and I discovered Endgame and ICE.
The old INS, Immigration and Naturalization Service, is now a part of the Department of Homeland Security and has been renamed as ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement. I guess Naturalization is no longer a priority among Bush and the other blankity-blank-blank elite.
Endgame is a project from ODR, the Office of Detention and Removal, a sub-agency of ICE, to "remove all removable aliens" by 2012. ODR will start with trying to locate and remove 590,000 that have ignored deportation orders and also 630,000 'criminal aliens'. (Where criminal aliens include actual criminals or they have only been accused or they were guilty of crimes that are usually handled by fines rather than imprisonment.)
Many of these people have families and jobs and are honest and we are excluding them as if they were not humans.
Diary below:
I support open borders and that is that. The geographic location of your place of birth is a nonsensical fact on which to base what level of dignity you deserve. It is an arbitrary fucking bullshit criteria where all humans should have equal rights and be treated with equal dignity.
Why all of a sudden must we deport all deportable persons by 2012? I don't remember that debate being, ahh debated. 40,000 are in detention now in the USA. The pinheads who want more walls and cultural purity should get their own padded cells.
These people are being treated like vermin instead of human beings, tracked downed and trapped and caged and then released back into the wild.
You can google for endgame and ice and immigration to find the sites that interest you. Here is 1 I found.
http://www.alternet.org/...