The New York Times reported that a new immigrant detention center has opened in Karnes County, Texas. The detention center is part of the Obama administration's plan to reform the immigration system in order "to provide a less penal setting for detainees" that are considered a minimal safety risk. The detention center resembles a school setting more than a jail where detainees will be allowed to move freely around most of the center. The guards who are unarmed will be referred to as "resident advisers" dressing in khaki pants and blue polo shirts. There will be courtrooms on the premises for immigration hearings with video conferencing available for judges in San Antonio and Houston.
Advocates of human rights and immigrants had long criticized the federal government's use of jails and jail-like detention centers for mistreating detainees, including providing poor health care that would result in deaths, for people who were mainly detained for civil violations. There are plans to upgrade several existing detention centers around the country, as well as plans to build new centers in South Florida and Chicago to hold medium and high security detainees.
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