Is Janet Napolitano breaking her promise to all Latinos in America? She has promised an improved, humanitarian, logical approach to Immigration Reform vs the militaristic, non-humane jailing of workers in abusive detention centers. Based on yesterday's events in Bellingham, Washington, it appears she is either breaking her promise or her ICE Team is not listening to her.
Immigration officers raided an engine remanufacturing plant in Bellingham, WA yesterday and arrested 28 workers sending the majority of them to the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. This Detention Center has a history of abuses including hundreds of detainees falling sick of food poisoning and in another case, 1,000 immigrants quarantined, falling ill from chickenpox. Northwest is owned/operated by the GEO Group, an international corporation that operates prisons around the country and a big RNC contributor. GEO is frequently in the news for their abuse of detainees, some resulting in preventable deaths. GEO has a series of pending law suits due to wrongful deaths of detainees in their custody.