Cheryl Little on Immigrant Detention: The Anti-Napolitano Approach

Staunch advocate for Haitian immigrants, Cheryl Little has this to say about detention:  “This year, ICE is spending $2.6 billion of our tax dollars to detain and deport tens of thousands of such immigrants. Much of that would be better spent on alternatives to detention. For a fraction of the $100-a-day cost per detainee, ICE can release needlessly detained immigrants with little risk that they will flee. This is a more sensible way to manage, shrink and reform ICE’s dysfunctional detention system.”

I wish that DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano was talking about detention in this way.

KJ