Dear Representative,
I was watching a video created by Jess Craven on Facebook and she caught my attention because she told me that this year ICE has spent $690 million on 7 warehouses. She said that all of these properties have gone for anywhere between 33-323% over what they were appraised at. These purchases also went through very quickly; much more expeditiously than most purchases like this would have normally been completed. She also said that ICE has plans to spend $38.3 billion turning former warehouses and prisons into detention centers this year. She said this is happening because you have given $75 billion to them with no oversite and lots of room for corruption. With no oversite there is no competitive bidding, no accountability, no one checking if prices make sense and no one verifying who profits. I did a quick check on Google and did find some articles that show Ms. Craven’s numbers are not just being pulled out of the air and ICE needs oversite.
This really upsets me to think that we have all this money to detain people, most of whom have no other charges against them, other than being here illegally. These people would rather be working, taking care of their families and paying taxes. Instead my tax dollars are paying for them to do nothing, except be traumatized. While we are being told that we don’t have money for disaster relief, healthcare or education.
I agree that we have an immigration issue. I am not sure why you can’t come up with a logical way to deal with the humans that need asylum and keep the criminals out. I don’t understand why people don’t see the importance of going after the immigrants that are criminals first and then after we get them out, work with the ones that just want a better life to see what we can do to help them keep working and paying taxes. I’m not sure why children are being held in detention centers at all. It seems that family members should be keeping the children, whenever possible. But my biggest question is why are we buying more detention centers? I thought the goal was to deport them.
I don’t want to pay for people to be held in prisons. I want people to pay taxes and raise their families. If they are violent offenders, call ICE and let them do what they need to get them out of our country. But if someone just wants a better life, can we help them do that? I thought that was the point of The United States of America. Please reign in ICE and The Felon in the Oval Office.
Sincerely,
Summer D Clemenson
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