ICE LAWS and the Illegal Immigration Crisis

After our class viewed the informative frontline program yesterday, I was honestly shocked about what I saw in the video. The issues brought up are multi-dimmensional controversies that really do not have a clear solution; however, the solution that ICE has come up with by putting illegal immigrants in detention facilities is clearly not working out as far as being a viable solution for future years to come. In addition, I do not understand how such harsh and violent treatment can go practically unreported when there is such a great basis for testimonies by the prisoners. The aspect of the detention facilities that bothered me the most was the way the prisoner's problems were dealt with; one woman in particular was beaten and sexually abused by one or more of the guards at the detention facility, but when she went to a female guard to reveal her misfortune she was informed that she should not report it because then it would only get more difficult for her; the worst part of this story is that the woman was told by the guard that if she told anyone, her family would be killed.

Another issue that was highlighted by this video was the detention of illegal immigrants who either have a spouse of have children/dependents to look over. The issue is that these people are not U.S. citizens but the have families and even children who are; these people are being locked up in detention facilities for the most basic/minor offenses like a busted tail light and the people who they are being detained with are the sex-offenders, murderers and drug traffickers. We have to ask ourselves, are these people really a risk to U.S. citizens by taking care or their husbands, wives, and children? And if not, why are they being treated the same way as the murders, sex-offenders, and drug traffickers?