Immigration is a problem that is taking every day more importance in the United States. Around 60 people have died in administrative detention from 2002. More than 27000 people are kept in county jails, privately run prisons and federal facilities, while the government decide whether to deport them or not. Due to the pressure put by law-makers and government investigators, the senate has recently accepted an amendment to increase the bill for the Department of Homeland Security. The detention capacity would grow in a 73 percent, making better the conditions of people in custody. However there are still complaints about the health care and suicide prevention. In the meantime that the system of detention for immigrants is decided in the senate, the deaths keep growing, together with the secret and confusion around them.
Published: June 26, 2007
By: Nina Bernstein
http://nytimes.com/2007/06/26/us/26detain.html
Thursday, June 28, 2007
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