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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (42490)	4/29/2002 5:50:28 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Hi IQBAL LATIF; Re: "... most nations already have the equivalent of "transit camps" for illegal aliens. The US certainly does." Okay. If you don't want to call them "transit camps", what do you want to call "detention"? Look for yourself from the US government's own links on the subject: google.com It's not like these are hotels. Here, read about what the US INS does to detainees as admitted by Ashcroft (the US' Attorney General) when he testified to congress. This is straight from the US House' own documents my friend: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED SEVENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION JUNE 6, 2001 ... That seems to me, of all the things we, the United States Government, do, one of the least justifiable. Could you agree that we should be working together to find a way to release from lifetime detention people who have never committed a crime that remotely justifies that degree of detention and are in prison in large part simply because there is no country that can take them back? *Attorney General ASHCROFT.* I can, and I'm grateful for your sensitivity to this. I think it's something that shocks the conscience of individuals. *There are about 3,000 long-term detainees in INS, if I'm not mistaken. I hope I have the numbers right. A little less than 400 of them have committed no offense*. Now, there is a process for INS to evaluate them in terms of whether they would stay in touch with INS if they were released. There is a release process. But, very frankly, no pun intended, Congressman Frank, I would welcome the opportunity to work on this. ... commdocs.house.gov It's a simple fact of life that states put people in detention before they throw them out of the country. This gives them the chance to show why they shouldn't be deported. The inhumane (fascist) alternative is to send them to permanent camps or simply dump them at a border crossing. The US can change its policies towards green card holders any time it wants to. If green card holders become too much of a security risk, we will ship them out of the country. If the country they came from won't accept them, the only humane thing for us to do is to put them in jail until a country will take them or for life. That is what we do. We are not suicidal. US soil is not "home free" for illegal aliens. -- Carl