US Immigration 'Bed Mandate' Requires 34,000 People Detained Each Day Jessica Desvarieux - The Real News
go to original January 1, 2014

Activist points to increasing privatization of detention centers as being behind mandatory detention rules in immigration reform bill' (TheRealNews)

Under the Obama administration, more undocumented immigrants have been deported then under any other president. One-point-five million people were deported as of last year, with the ACLU putting that figure as approaching 2 million deportations. That's an all-time record.

Many activists, including many undocumented immigrants themselves, have resorted to civil disobedience to stop buses transporting deportees to detention centers, where they are said to face unjust and inhumane conditions.

With The Real News to discuss the issue around immigration and the conditions at government Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) centers is Catalina Nieto. She's the field director of the Detention Watch Network, a national coalition working to expose and challenge the injustices of the U.S. immigration, detention, and deportation system.

Read the transcript at The Real News

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