A Little-Known Congressional Quota is Placing LGBT Immigrants in Grave Danger | Center for American Progress
Beginning in 2009, Congress directed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, to detain a set number of immigrants each day in an attempt to force the department to increase deportations. Today, this arbitrary congressional quota requires that DHS maintain bed space to jail 34,000 immigrants every day—regardless of DHS’s actual need to detain immigrants and at a cost of more than $2 billion per year. An estimated 70 percent of immigrants in detention facilities fall into the mandatory detention category; this means that 30 percent of the 34,000 immigrants detained each day would be eligible for release if not for the quota. Removing the quota would save taxpayers at least $600 million per year and prevent tens of thousands of people from being unnecessarily imprisoned.
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All of the above is profane, but as the article’s title suggests, there are even more horrors to this corporate-subsidy story.
Please read about them, and then sign this petition:
http://www.change.org/petitions/end-the-quota
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