Saturday, November 19, 2011

Lost in Detention

Facts/Details:
  1. Over 1 million illegal immigrants have been deported since Obama took office.
  2. Most illegal immigrants are found after they commit smaller crimes and then are checked at the police station, only to be undocumented in their systems.
  3. 195,000 criminal deportees including: 1,000 murderers, 6,000 sex offenders, 45,000 serious drug violators. 
  4. Families are oftentimes separated due to non-serious crimes
  5. The illegal immigrants live in fear of being caught and put in a deportation facility.
  6. I.C.E has set a target number of 400,000 deportations per year, and if they did not reach their quota, they were at the risk of being summoned to Washington. 
  7. 46% of people living illegally belong to a family. 
  8. 4.5 million U.S citizen children are living in families where either one or both parents are here illegally. 
  9. The ICE stands for the US Immigration and Custom's Enforcement Agency.
  10.  The US has 250 detention centers for the illegal immigrants
Questions:
  1. Is it fair for the children of illegal immigrants to be separated from their parents?
  2. Do you think having a quota for deportees a bad thing for the immigration system?
  3. Are the deportation facilities too harsh on those they catch?
  4. How does deportation help the U.S. economy?
  5. Why do the aliens choose t come illegally instead of going through the right way?

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