The Immigration Detention Centers of Today, the Nursing Homes of Tomorrow

Tiberiu Dianu
7 min readAug 20, 2019

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What has separated the United States from every other nation is the concept of being a nation of laws, not a nation of men and women. The best way for a nation to deal with its citizens is to treat all of them equally under the law.

The people who disagree with this concept are both those who abuse the law and use their official position unfairly, and those who want to abuse the law and benefit from that abuse.

Let’s see how this works in our immigration system.

The lawyers prepare frivolous claims for their indigent clients (who barely speak English) against the government. They use chicanery to artificially prolong the clients’ illegal stay in the country.

The illegal aliens create, slowly and gradually, a metamorphosed mass of over 20-million people with uncertain status across the nation, aiming to transform the nation.

How are all these enormous legal fees going to be paid? By contingent-fee arrangements? I think not. You’d better follow the money and check who is paying all these attorneys.

The first scenario: suing the government for reunification of families. The Department of Justice (DOJ), under the “zero tolerance” policy, began to file criminal charges against most illegal immigrants for misdemeanors (illegal entries) and felonies (illegal re-entries). The goal was to create consequences for families who broke the law, but had been released under the previous policies. The parents were separated from their children, who were placed with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), which put them in shelters or sought sponsors to take them.

As The Washington Times reported, because a federal judge ordered an end to the separation and ordered the families reunited, the government has scrambled to reconnect over 2,000 children separated from parents (who, in some cases, had already been deported).

However, DNA tests prove that over 30 percent of the children accompanying adults seeking asylum have no relation whatsoever, in other words, the children are being trafficked.

The boomerang effect: left-wing advocacy groups are suing over the “zero tolerance” policy claiming it is intended to inflict “emotional distress” on the migrant adults and the children.

In February 2019, six illegal alien families filed multi-million dollar claims against the Trump administration over the family separations, saying they need the money to pay for counseling and other medical care to heal from the “torture” they said they suffered. A Guatemalan complainant woman says her daughter has nightmares and night sweats, and sometimes blurts out about her being taken away again.

This is the latest effort by migrant-rights groups to punish the administration for the separation of children that inflicted “emotional distress” on the parents and children.

The second scenario: filing class actions against the government for ignoring the migrants’ medical needs. Disability and civil rights advocates claim in the suits that the detainees are placed in isolation and denied medical treatment.

In August 2019, they filed a lawsuit on behalf of 15 illegal immigrants from Mexico, Sudan and other countries, who live in eight different facilities, many of whom are fighting deportation. One detainee from the Middle East alleges he was denied a wheel chair, while another one claims he has not been provided with an interpreter. Immigrants said they are placed in isolation as punishment and denied recommended medical treatment and surgery.

As Associated Press reported, the attorneys claim that the problems harm disabled immigrants and threaten anyone in one of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) more than 50,000 detention beds. According to the same source, “medical care is provided to all detainees including dental and 24-hour emergency care.”

The future is clear: the immigration detentions centers of today will turn soon into the nursing homes of tomorrow. ICE will have to hand over their facilities to the DHHS. It seems that, by design, this is the plan.

NOTE — Versions of the article were published in:

CARIBBEAN NEWS GLOBAL (Brooklyn/New York City, New York) [1,400+ views, comments]

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INTELLECTUAL CONSERVATIVE (Phoenix, Arizona) [4 comments]

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MARIANAS VARIETY (Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands) [4 comments]

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MEDIUM (San Francisco, California) [100+ views; 4 comments; 50+ likes]

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SAIPAN TRIBUNE (Garapan/Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands) [ comments]

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and featured in:

320ro.com (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom) [ comments]

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ACCENT (Toronto, Canada) [in Romanian] [ comments]

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AFRO-CONSCIOUS MEDIA (Canada; Long Beach, California) [ comments]

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and

ALTERNATIVA/THE ALTERNATIVE (Toronto, Canada) (_________ 2018) [in Romanian] [NOTE = scroll down on the journal’s home page to get the article and then press OPEN on the article]

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ARMONIA/THE HARMONY (Hickory/Charlotte, North Carolina) [in Romanian] [ comments]

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and also

ARMONIA MAGAZINE/THE HARMONY MAGAZINE (Hickory/Charlotte, North Carolina) [in Romanian] [ comments]

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and

BLUNT FORCE TRUTH (Detroit, Michigan) [ comments]

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and

CARIBBEAN POST (Santiago, Dominican Republic) [ comments]

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and

CLICK ROMANIA (London, United Kingdom) [in Romanian] [4 comments]

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CURENTUL INTERNAŢIONAL/INTERNATIONAL CURRENT (Sterling Heights/Detroit, Michigan) [in Romanian] [4 comments]

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FIWEH (Okinawa, Japan) [ comments]

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and

FREE REPUBLIC (Fresno, California) [ comments]

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and

GÂNDACUL DE COLORADO/THE COLORADO BEETLE (Estes Park/Denver, Colorado) [in Romanian] [200+ views; 4 comments]

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GOP BRIEFING ROOM [ + views; comments]

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and

LUCIANNE.COM (Cliffside Park, New Jersey) [ + comments]

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and

MENAFN (Amman, Jordan)

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and

MERIDIANUL ROMÂNESC/THE ROMANIAN MERIDIAN (Santa Clarita/Los Angeles, California) [in Romanian]

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and

MEXICAN OCCUPATION

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and

MIORIŢA USA (Sacramento, California) [in Romanian]

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and

MORNING IN ARIZONA [ comments]

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NAŢIUNEA/THE NATION (Bucharest, Romania) [in Romanian] [ comments]

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NEW YORK MAGAZIN/NEW YORK MAGAZINE (New York City, New York) [in Romanian] [4 comments]

and

OBSERVATORUL/THE OBSERVER (Toronto, Canada) [in Romanian]

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OCCIDENTUL ROMÂNESC/ROMANIAN WEST (Madrid, Spain)

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and

PARADIGMS AND DEMOGRAPHICS (Cleveland, Ohio) [ comments]

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and

PROTECTORS OF LIBERTY (Mount Pleasant, Michigan) [ comments]

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and

QOSHE (Netherlands & Turkey)

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QWIKET (Kingston, New York) [ comments]

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and

ROMANIAN TIMES (Portland, Oregon) [in Romanian]

and also

ROMANIAN TIMES (Portland, Oregon) (print edition, pp. and ) [in Romanian]

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and

SAVE AMERICA FOUNDATION (Clearwater, Florida)

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and

TIMP ROMÂNESC/ROMANIAN TIME (Bucharest, Romania) [in Romanian] [ comments]

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and

TRIBUNA ROMÂNEASCĂ/ROMANIAN TRIBUNE (Chicago, Illinois) [in Romanian] [ comments]

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TRULY TIMES [ + views, comments]

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TRUMP’S MINUTEMEN (Fort Worth, Texas)

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and

US POLITICS 10z [ comments]

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and referenced in:

CENTRUL DE PRESĂ — PRESSPEDIA/THE PRESS CENTER — PRESSPEDIA (Bucharest, Romania) [in Romanian] [+ views]

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and

CURENTUL INTERNAŢIONAL/INTERNATIONAL CURRENT — FACEBOOK (Sterling Heights/Detroit, Michigan) [in Romanian]

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LIBERAL FORUM

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and

MUCK RACK (New York, New York)

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and

OBAMA LIES

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and

PRESS RUSH (Turku, Finland)

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and

ZENITH NEWS (Duluth, Minnesota)

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NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS = 15

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Tiberiu Dianu
Tiberiu Dianu

Written by Tiberiu Dianu

TIBERIU DIANU is a Washington, DC author of articles and books of law and politics. See: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=tiberiu+dianu&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

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