EXPOSÉ | "An Inside Job" | PBS

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Dogs used to intimidate prisoners. Troubling accounts of inadequate health care, medical emergencies ignored, even unexplained deaths. Immigrants held, sometimes without access to lawyers.

That's what NPR reporter Daniel Zwerdling discovered when he investigated the treatment of immigrant detainees. But this shocking prison story wasn't from Abu Ghraib in Iraq or even Gitmo, it was from prisons right here at home.

For more than ten years, U.S. law has stated that non-citizens -- both legal and illegal -- with criminal records must face deportation, even if they've already served time for their crime. While waiting for deportation, they are held in detention centers inside the U.S. Using sources "on the inside", Zwerdling revealed cases in which detainees in such centers were being abused by prison guards, attacked by dogs, and even dying while awaiting deportation.

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[mg5679]

The prisoners at Abu Grab got what they deserved. Those prisoners should have been shot.

[mg5679]

Deport all illegal immigrants.

[groundinghubris]

??? I don't understand your comment? are you agreeing or disagreeing with my statement? My examples are about government who does what it wants to people and with no oversight.

and it doesn't matter how open about it we or any other nation is about it. what we have done does place us among fascist and nationalist evil nations.

[majikninja07]

LoL you seem to think any government that does what it wants isn't like your examples it just depends on how open they are about it

[groundinghubris]

Who falls in the category of legal non-citizen?

Green Card holders

Visa holders

and even

legal Resident status people who are in process of citizenship.

Regardless if status is legal or not, inhumane treatment of anyone is wrong. It makes us no better then Old Communist Russia, China, Nazi Germany, nor any nation we have traditionally stood against. We can now claim botherhood with some of the worst regimes in history.

[Vierotchka]

Green-card carriers.

[mikepb63]

If they dont want to get thrown in prison they should stay home and not come over here and steal my car!!!

[Rayzor369]

Good Question.

[LibertyVideos]

Who falls in the category of legal non-citizen?