Dozens of Democrats in the House and Senate introduced legislation this week that would make it harder to hold illegal aliens in custody if they qualify as a "Vulnerable person," such as those who are gay, lesbian or transgender, who don't speak English, or who meet other definitions of the term under the bill.
The Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act, from Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., is aimed at setting minimum standards for detention facilities where thousands of illegal aliens are kept as they await processing.
Under the legislation, the Department of Homeland Security could arrest illegal aliens and either release them on bond or detain them while a decision is made on whether to remove them from the country.
The bill sets out new rules on detention that favor aliens.
The bill goes further by seeking to exempt several groups of illegal aliens from any detention at all.
CBP SEIZES $21.1 MILLION WORTH OF FENTANYL PILLS CONCEALED WITHIN TRACTOR-TRAILER CARRYING GREEN BEANS. Under the bill, "Vulnerable person" is defined as anyone who is under 21 or older than 60, pregnant, or who "Identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or intersex." Other vulnerable aliens are those who are a victim of or witness to a crime, anyone who has filed a nonfrivolous civil rights claim in court, anyone with a workplace claim, and those with a "Serious mental or physical illness or disability."
Democrats supporting the bill said it's needed to restore the dignity of aliens held after trying to enter the U.S. MAYORKAS COMES FACE TO FACE WITH FAMILY OF GRANDMOTHER, 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL KILLED BY HUMAN SMUGGLER NEAR BORDER. "The Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act urgently reforms the alarming injustices of a broken, for-profit immigration detention system by ending the use of private detention facilities altogether, repealing mandatory detention, and prohibiting family detention while also restoring due process and increasing oversight, accountability, and transparency measures," said Jayapal.
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