"Lost in Detention": As Obama Deports Record 400,000, Film Explores Immigrant Life in Jail

www.DemocracyNow.org - The Obama administration has released new figures showing U.S. deportations of immigrants reached a record high. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it deported nearly 400,000 people in fiscal year 2011, the highest total in the agency's eight years. The data was released the same day a coalition of Latino and immigrant rights groups held a National Day of Action to protest Obama's immigration policies. The protesters called for an immediate end to the "Secure Communities" program, which requires local police to forward fingerprints of every person they arrest to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. More than one million immigrants have been deported during Obama's tenure, even as efforts to reform immigration policy have languished. A new PBS Frontline documentary, "Lost in Detention," investigates the immigration program under Obama. Democracy Now! speaks with the award-winning broadcast journalist who led the investigation, Maria Hinojosa.

For the complete transcript, podcast, and for additional Democracy Now! reports on U.S. Immigration Policy, http://www.democracynow.org/tags/immigration

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[xoxak888]

The rationale of US should not deport those illegal aliens because of those children left behind. With that logic, Most of the inmates in prison should be released since they also have some children or sick old parents behind.

[MrChivapool]

Ever since the end of World War II The America Government took over the Nazi Doctrine....This is why the world is full of chaos ! The U.S Government & their Corporate bosses worship war and destruction of EVERYTHING and EVERYONE because it equals profit and full control.

[casaesperanzanj]

Ironically, the documentary does not address what one would presume it would from the title - that people are actually lost in the immigrant detention system: there are records of people who have spent 5, 7, & even up to 10 years being shuffled through the system, transferred from one jail to another, for no other crime than entering without inspection (EWIs) or overstaying a visa (Overstays)!

There needs to be transparency, oversight, accountability, & correction to this byzantine behemoth!

[RobertDovLevin]

Amy you guys rock!

[TribeTPaul]

Amazing the President of The United States is getting criticized for enforcing the laws of the USA. Deporting Foreign Nationals who have "voluntarily refused" to petition the government in-order to immigrate according to the legal procedures of the host country.

[casares35]

Deport Obummer!

[oolibrice]

Thank you for this

[rextrek]

it all comes down to $

[Louielounge]

I visited a privatized detention center in New Jersey in 1999, in a law school seminar. Professionally hopeless