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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok what's the alternative? They need to go somewhere?[/quote]
If they’ve committed a violent crime, they should already be in jail or prison same as if a citizen did it. If their only offense is being in the country illegally, deport them right away. There’s no reason to round up nonviolent offenders and store them in a warehouse like chattel.[/quote]

As always with Republicans today, the cruelty is the point. Not efficiency. Not good policy. Not what works. The opportunity to be cruel is the driving energy of MAGA Republicans. [/quote]

Being in the country without documentation is a CIVIL, not a criminal offense. They should not be jailed at all.

Cruelty is definitely the point. Miller must have been dissed by a Latina, and he's getting his revenge on the entire culture. [/quote]

A lot of right wingers are also against this TBH, worrying that this normalizes detaining people (effectively jailing them) without due process, based purely on suspicion. If detention center excuse is to allow due diligence to make sure wrong people aren't deported.   This can mean that any American citizen can be detained based on any type of suspicion with no legal discourse, separated from their family and put into prison like setting for who know how long.  The fear is that dissidents or anyone inconvenient to whatever regime (this goes for overreach of BOTH parties) would be primary target.  This fear appears to be bipartisan.  [/quote]

I have to add that for the left this fear is that those who protest against ICE actions and other things current administration is doing these prisons would serve as an excuse to intimidate them and neuter any type of movement.  For the right (especially those who were vehemently against Covid measures) the fear is that these detention centers will become future quarantine camps where people suspected to carry whatever virus will be imprisoned (but in reality they could also be dissidents of the left wing regime).   Logically, this entire idea is against our fundamental American freedoms to not be imprisoned without due diligence.  We release dangerous criminals on bail (and without bail in some locations), while we create a system where masses of families can be imprisoned for vague reasons.  The worst part of it is because it's immigrant detention centers they are built for families... This itself should give us a pause. [/quote]

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