After the relief work by the Clinton Foundation, there shouldn’t be anybody wanting to leave Haiti.
Via Fox News:
Haitians crossing illegally into the U.S. via the Mexican border could wind up in an Ohio prison under a federal plan to accommodate them pending immigration hearings.
The Department of Homeland Security is negotiating with the operators of the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center to lease space to house an anticipated influx of Haitian illegal immigrants, according to the Wall Street Journal. Officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division of DHS, expect thousands from the impoverished island nation to cross across the U.S.’s southwestern border from Mexico.
The proposed use of the prison, which is operated by private company CoreCivic, has met opposition in the Buckeye State.
“Incarcerating thousands of immigrants in a private prison before deporting them is unjust and allowing a corporation to profit from it is a travesty,” said Mike Brickner, senior policy director of the ACLU of Ohio, said in a statement.
The ALCU calls negotiations between DHS and CoreCivic — which was known until recently as Corrections Corporation of America — troubling, considering it was just two months ago that the Department of Justice announced that they would end their use of private prisons after evidence of widespread abuse was found.
“The DHS’s decision to partner with private prisons sends a horrible message about profiteering at the expense of individuals seeking asylum,” Brickner said. “During ICE detention, these people have been subject to abuse and mistreatment. Incentivizing private companies to detain people for profit only exacerbates our criminal justice system problems. To allow more people to be incarcerated for a profit in Ohio sends our state in the wrong direction.”