{"id":21651,"date":"2019-06-27T11:17:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T15:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=21651"},"modified":"2019-06-27T11:17:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T15:17:35","slug":"ranting-rosie-and-the-truth-about-immigration-detention-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/06\/27\/ranting-rosie-and-the-truth-about-immigration-detention-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranting Rosie and the Truth About Immigration Detention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When D-List, celebrity, has-beens Andy Cohen and Rosie O\u2019Donnell get together, most Americans don\u2019t expect intellectual analysis and penetrating insight. But O\u2019Donnell\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/rosie-odonnell-over-100000-concentration-camps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">recent appearance<\/a> on Bravo\u2019s \u201cWatch What Happens Live After Show\u201d demonstrated a level of ignorance that is shocking even for the generally clueless denizens of Hollywood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glomming onto a disturbing trend amongst <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/06\/21\/aocs-clueless-concentration-camp-remarks\/\" target=\"_blank\">politicians<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/06\/11\/immigration-detention-is-not-a-concentration-camp-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">pundits<\/a> and entertainment personalities, O\u2019Donnell made the astonishing assertion that there are \u201cconcentration camps\u201d across the United States where migrant children are \u201cseparated from their families\u201d and detained. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2019\/06\/25\/video-rosie-odonnell-claims-there-are-over-100000-concentration-camps-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">O\u2019Donnell<\/a>, \u201cThere are over 100,000 camps in nearly every state. There\u2019s between 10,000 and 13,000 children, that could fill Radio City Music Hall twice. That\u2019s how many children unaccompanied alone in these camps.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One presumes that O\u2019Donnell is\nreferring to immigration detention centers maintained by U.S. Immigration and\nCustoms Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and\ncontractors who provide detention facilities to both agencies. However, Ms.\nO\u2019Donnell\u2019s insane utterance is so outrageous that most reasonable observers\nprobably have no idea what she is talking about. (It also seems pretty clear\nthat Ms. O\u2019Donnell has absolutely no idea what <em>she<\/em> is talking about.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, let us, as social justice\nwarriors like to say, take a moment to unpack Rosie\u2019s rant and demonstrate just\nhow absurd it was: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>There are 50 states in the Union. That would mean that if Ranting Rosie is correct, there are 2,000 immigration \u201cconcentration camps\u201d in each state. <\/li><li>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/sw-border-migration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">CBP<\/a>, through May of 2019, it has apprehended 56,728 unaccompanied alien children and 332,981 alien family units.<\/li><li>That\u2019s a total of 389,709 people who are supposedly subject to detention in this vast network of alleged \u201cconcentration camps.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If all of the migrant children, <em>and <\/em>every adult presenting with children\nas a family unit, were detained, there would be approximately four inmates in\neach of what O\u2019Donnell calls \u201cconcentration camps.\u201d If we just include the\nunaccompanied migrant children, and the roughly one-third of family units whom\nwe can safely presume are kids, that drops to one detainee per \u201ccamp.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In reality, however, ICE has repeatedly requested additional funding for detention beds, because Congress generally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/ICE%20FY18%20Budget.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">approves money<\/a> for only 40,000-50,000 general detention beds and 2,000-3,000 family detention beds. It\u2019s definitely not maintaining a massive web of \u201ccamps\u201d in order to terrorize small groups of migrant kids.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, ICE uses approximately\n210 facilities that are approved for detaining immigration violators longer\nthan 72 hours. That\u2019s about four per state. They consist of a combination of\nICE-run facilities, leased space in U.S. Marshals Service or Federal Bureau of\nPrisons facilities and leased space in state and local facilities. In response\nto emergent situations, like the current border crisis, both ICE and CBP will\nlease additional space and\/or set up temporary camps, similar to those operated\nby the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the aftermath of natural\ndisasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add to the above statistics the\nfact that ICE regularly paroles foreign nationals into the United States, due\nto a consistent lack of detention space, and the reality is that the only thing\ncoming out of O\u2019Donnell\u2019s mouth is hot air. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But O\u2019Donnell, and most of the rest of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/10\/17\/reality-is-so-unfair-guidice-deportation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tinseltown<\/a>, don\u2019t care about the truth. Rosie and her <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/10\/17\/reality-is-so-unfair-guidice-deportation\/\" target=\"_blank\">celebrity<\/a> buddies are only interested in implementing their <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/05\/25\/katy-perrys-world-has-borders-and-barriers-but-yours-shouldnt\/\" target=\"_blank\">misguided vision<\/a> of a Utopian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/10\/06\/california-dreamin-rights-illegal-aliens-matter-safety-citizens-legal-residents-doesnt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">borderless world<\/a>. In order to do that, they are willing to play fast and loose with the truth. And they\u2019ll do so even at the risk of trivializing the suffering of true concentration camp victims and slandering a president who\u2019s simply trying to re-establish the integrity of our southern border, which has been rendered nearly irrelevant by decades of lax immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When D-List, celebrity, has-beens Andy Cohen and Rosie O\u2019Donnell get together, most Americans don\u2019t expect intellectual analysis and penetrating insight. But O\u2019Donnell\u2019s recent appearance on Bravo\u2019s \u201cWatch What Happens Live After Show\u201d demonstrated a level of ignorance that is shocking even for the generally clueless denizens of Hollywood. Glomming onto a disturbing trend amongst politicians,<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/06\/27\/ranting-rosie-and-the-truth-about-immigration-detention-immigrationreform-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":17240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[1242,1524,1157,47],"yst_prominent_words":[2521,1954,5929,5924,2118,5992,5995,1970,4544,1918,1963,5993,2659,2651,5994,5997,5996,2373,1945,1933],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21652,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21651\/revisions\/21652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21651"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}