A New York Times article chronicles a development on Capitol Hill regarding a new facet of the illegal immigration problem in the United States. According to reports published by Human Rights Watch and Transactional Records Clearing House, numbers of immigrants are being transferred quickly or more frequently than necessary. This action can and does cause problems within the bureaucratic system in which these transfers take place. Furthermore 60% of these detainees are facing deportation without a lawyer.
This situation in ICE is in is a consequence of fuzzy legal description s and tight budgeting. ICE has had to shift its allocations around and even reported having low numbers of detainee beds in response to the reports. Furthermore, the constant transfers must stop. This only complicates a complicated and ill defined system, plus only costs taxpayers more money, which supposedly is the negative consequence of illegal immigrants in the first place.
-Austin H.
