US immigration agrees to soften immigration facilities

United States, 21st June: As per the latest US immigration department’s agreement, any alien breaking rules in America will have softer rules of detention. 

The US immigration department has agreed with CCA to ease detention facilities for illegal immigrants in the US.

The agreement between the US immigration department and the CCA(Corrections Corporation of America), the biggest contractor for the ICE(US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) will result in softening of nine immigration facilities. 

Following the new agreement, there will be an end to the confinement for immigrants in prison-like arrangements where illegal immigrants are held with armed guards and razor wire.

Moreover, the latest agreement concerning the illegal immigrants will also enable a few immigrants as well as those seeking asylum and likely to be deported to wear clothes of their own and even enjoy right to participate in bingo nights and movies. 

The changes agreed in the US immigration agreement will come into effect in the coming six months and will provide more facilities to the illegal immigrants including increased access to seek legal help, bedding and furniture, improved diet, new colors in the facility and increased duration of visits of family and friends. 

The new list of provisions being extended to the illegal immigrants in the US by the ICE covering nearly 7,100 beds will also include provision of self-service beverages, cooking, fresh vegetables, hanging of plants, flower baskets and exercise classes in order to provide free movement for the aliens. 

Way back in the year 2009, John Marton, the director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement had stated that the plans of the agency to make less prison-like conditions at detention facilities because of the fact that the detainees held in such facilities are not criminal offenders but guilty of civil immigration violations. 

An official spokesman of the ICE, Brian Hale stated that the main aim of the agency is to extend such reforms to all the facilities having contracts with the ICE including local and state detention facilities where illegal immigrants are detained under the contract with the US immigration agency. 

Meanwhile, all such reforms to be introduced in the US immigration detention facilities are being met with severe criticism from agents working with detainees. The agents argue that such acts will increase safety risks for the officials working in the detention facilities.