26,000 UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS HELD IN US

Holy cats, this number is astounding. Check out this blurb (available here:http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/19/1545210 ) from the headlines of the podcast from DemocracyNow.Org:

Report: Record Number of Undocumented Immigrants Jailed in U.S. The League of United Latin American Citizens says the number of undocumented immigrants currently detained in the United States has reached a record of over 26,000. Many of the detained immigrants are being denied access to legal assistance. In Raymondville Texas, two thousand immigrants are being held in a compound made up of a series of big tents without windows. Brent Wilkes of the League of United Latin American Citizens said "It's like Guantanamo Bay, but these people are not terrorists. They are just immigrants."

26,000!! That's an insanely large number of people. That's more than half the size of the Rhode Island National Guard. Ironically, that number also represents the number of white Americans who care.

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