DUer's, I need your help.

[helderheid]

My hero, Keith Olbermann, isn't talking about this so needless to say, no one else is either.


http://news.google.com/news?source=ig&hl=en&q=immigration%20detention%20centers&btnG=Google+Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn


Families Say Detention Centers Feel Like Prison
New California Media, CA - Feb 27, 2007
ICE defends these family detention centers as a better option than "catch and release," which doesn't ensure families will show up for immigration court ...


Immigration agency outsources food service at detention centers
GovExec.com, DC - Feb 26, 2007
Fifty-six ICE food service employees at detention centers in Miami; Los Angeles; Los Fresnos and El Paso, Texas; Florence, Ariz.; and El Centro, Calif., ...





Group Protests Immigration Detention Centers
CBS 11, TX - Feb 14, 2007
Asma Salam of the Dallas Peace Center asked, "How could we have these inhumane detention centers in our own country?" US immigration enforcement ...


Immigration detention centers are like prisons
한겨레신문, South Korea - Feb 11, 2007
Part of the reason for the tragedy is that foreigner detention centers are operated like prisons. This many people wouldn’t have died if they hadn’t been ...


Groups wants immigration centers closed
El Paso Times, TX - Feb 22, 2007
The detention centers are operated without official regulations. Immigration and Customs Enforcement relies on custody rules designed for inmates.


Report Decries Immigrant Centers As Prison-Like
Kansas City infoZine, MO - Feb 23, 2007
By Michaela Jackson - Life is bleak for hundreds of illegal immigrant families lodged in detention centers as they await decisions on their immigration ...


Report criticizes conditions at immigrant detention centers
Kansas City Star, MO - Feb 21, 2007
WASHINGTON - The nation's two family detention centers for illegal immigrants - one in Texas and the other in Berks County, Pa. - are plagued by problems ...

PRESS TV 2 groups compare US immigrant detention centers to prisons
PRESS TV, Iran - Feb 22, 2007
The complaints come one month after a federal inspection of 5 of the nation's 325 immigrant detention centers found that most did not provide timely and ...

[e-mail] and [e-mail]

THANK YOU

:pals:

[shance]

1. Bless your heart Helderheid. I'll do what I can on my end. Give us Olbermann's addy would you?

That would help get the word to him in more volume.

Take care and thanks for keeping this on the forefront.

These families have so few speaking for them.

[helderheid]

2. I edited the OP with the addresses - thank you dear shance!

[WiseButAngrySara]

3. LOL! And in grand, bold style you edited it! ....n/t

[helderheid]

14. hee! I thought going big would get your attention ;)

[WiseButAngrySara]

4. KNR! ...n/t

[silverlib]

5. Here in Austin - and adequately appalled

I'm in Austin and plan to attend any further protests that may occur at the center in Taylor.

Since the two groups tend to be actually trying to shut this particular center down, I will try to contact them.

The Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Center
Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children.

You are not alone. I'm surprised the KO hasn't covered this, as the NY Times has covered it as well as several Newspapers. I have a link to the last article that was up at Yahoo.

It's an outrage. I'm getting ready to call it a night and will go through the remainder of the articles you listed tomorrow. Of hand, I hope the article that tells of the child who passed one of the site visitors a note is included.

one more edit since your edit- I will certainly also e-mail KO.

[Jed Dilligan]

6. But anti-immigrant people love prisons...

Airing this issue would only preach to the converted.

[helderheid]

7. Better wise them up - where did their ancestors come from?

[helderheid]

8. I'm off to bed. Thank you all for getting this on the greatest so quickly. Please keep kicked!

THANKS!!

[Erika]

9. done. Hope Keith says something. n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. K&R for the sake of the immigrants.

[fed-up]

11. k/r nt

[unhappycamper]

12. Democray Now! has been covering this for a while.

http://www.democracynow.org/search.pl?query=detention+center

[helderheid]

13. thanks! I haven't tuned in in some time - I appreciate it! Hope Keith will soon as well.

[Th1onein]

15. K & R, helderheid

Isn't one of these detention centers going up in the Texas Rio Grande Valley at Raymondville? I know a LOT of people down there and they are NOT going to like this. The people of the Rio Grande Valley are wonderful, caring human beings. They will not like seeing their fellow human beings treated in such a manner.

[mmonk]

16. .

:kick:

[WiseButAngrySara]

17. another kick! ....n/t

[helderheid]

18. thanks again!

:hi:

[WiseButAngrySara]

19. Oh, thank you helderheid! You're a DU dear!

:hi:

[WiseButAngrySara]

20. And more kicks for the post! ....n/t

[helderheid]

21. .

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[WiseButAngrySara]

22. Wow! Back at 'ya. I can't repeat that, but another kick will do! ...n/t

[Marie26]

23. Kick

Helderheid, thank you so much for getting attention for this issue. I've just sent an email to Olbermann.