Sunday, June 13, 2010

Illegal Immigrant Jails to Get Bingo, Art Classes and Continental Breakfast on Weekends

And you're paying for it.  Hard to believe.  But it's absolutely true.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are preparing to roll out a series of changes at several privately owned immigration detention centers, including relaxing some security measures for low-risk detainees and offering art classes, bingo and continental breakfast on the weekends.

The changes, detailed in an internal ICE e-mail obtained by the Houston Chronicle, were welcomed by immigrant advocates who have been waiting for the Obama administration to deliver on a promise made in August to overhaul the nation's immigration detention system.
Read the whole story here. 

We managed to obtain one of the bingo cards. 


 h/t Hack Wilson

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