Mistreatment of immigrants in INS detention facilities.

The bad treatment in INS detention facilities has proved to be violation of human rights. The simple fact that a person is not American does not give anyone the right to violate them as human beings. This has been the case in detention facilities across the nation in the past couple of years. With the new program ICE which intends to cleanse the country of illegal immigrants, the detention facilities have over populated and the mistreatment of prisoners has escalated. The mistreatment alone ids an understatement when you consider that there has been 62 deaths in the past three years in INS detention facilities. This is a very high number. In a place where prisoners are treated fairly this many people never die. INS officials have argued that they do what they can , they claim to have spent 98 million dollars to care for “illegals” in these facilities. When someone spends that much money the death rates should not be tat high. In the case of Victor Vargas, he died simply because INS of Los Angeles would not permit him to take his medication. Vargas suffered from HIV, but even so many live long lives with this disease as long as they take their medication. The detention facility basically killed him by not allowing him to take his medications. This is not the only case another case a pregnant women out of El Paso, Texas died in a detention center of this kind. It is not in one city but all around the country. The INS treats immigrants like if they are an animal or something and they claim to spend millions. Why don’t they just deport these immigrants instead of keeping them incarcerated for months in some cases.