ACLU Reports on Children Detained at Hutto

This two-minute Freedom Files video short provides a shocking glimpse into conditions at a Texas facility to detain immigrants run by the Department of Homeland Security. Of the approximately 400 detainees at the Hutto Detention Facility, many are children who belong to refugee families seeking political asylum in the U.S. after escaping persecution in their country of origin.

This is way beyond disgusting, locking up children because their parents are refugees or immigrants. Some of the children detained at these 'homeland security' camps are American citizens, whose parents may not be legal residents.

I really wish all the immigrants to this country would go on strike starting June 1, 2007. By June 10th, the country would be at a stand-still. By July 1, all the anti-immigration folks would change their mind.

But this slow gathering up of people and then sticking them in detention camps means that they will all be afraid to do anything, and it also allows time for the federal government to accommodate the reduction in labor force. I heard they are achieving this by using prison labor.

This is so sick.

I guess the only good news here is that, so far, no one has been killed. That's not much in the way of "good news" and is likely to change.