Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Sunday, October 23, 2011

California Republican: State Should Imprison Undocumented Immigrants Abroad

A Republican state assemblyman in California has what he calls "a wild idea": The state should consider building prisons abroad to house undocumented immigrants who committed crimes in the United States.

"Let's build their prisons in their home countries and send them to those prisons," Assemblyman Brian Jones told Patch editors on Friday, essentially proposing the government deport criminals before they serve their time. "It might be cheaper to pay for the prisons in other countries -- if the other country will run it and keep them actually in prison," he added later.

The federal government currently deports unauthorized immigrants after they serve prison sentences, but provides some support to states to defray the cost of detention through the DOJ's State Criminal Alien Assistance Program. Undocumented immigrants make up about 25 percent of the population of federal prisons, according to a March report from the Government Accountability Office. But that figure is larger than the percentage of undocumented immigrants in state prisons because civil immigration violations -- being in the country illegally -- are federal crimes.

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Source: Huff 

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