That's kind of hard to do when you're in a detention facility.

I would like to think our country is merciful and humane. An international beacon of hope. But people like @1 prove we have a long way to go.

@1 now say "DEY TOOK URR JAWWWBS!"

"No Borders! No State!"

I think that's a Ted Nugent quote. I fully back it.

@5 Actually detainees are often forced, threatened, or tricked into signing those papers (ie. no translator available) and are deported against their will, including at the NW Detention Center. Some mothers and fathers have been detained for months longer than necessary, waiting on hearings that are continually delayed. Meanwhile, the Geo Group and others are making huge profits by locking up more and more non-violent immigrants, elevating the suffering, but pleasing their share holders.

Oh, and a federal Judge decided yesterday that the gov't has been unlawfully detaining certain immigrants & refugees at the NW Detention Center in Tacoma without providing them the opportunity to ask an immigration judge to be released on bond. Bottom line: there's a lot of bad things going on there. Things we shouldn't be supporting.

From his decision: "There can be no serious question that some of these aliens present no risk to their communities and no risk of flight, because some of them have been living in this country for decades and have families and careers. What the government thinks about a law that locks away peaceable family members without release, the court can only guess."