According to the New York Times, the Obama administration in 2009 claimed that it would begin working to improve the harsh conditions and unfair treatment of detainees in immigration detention centers, but not much progress has been made since then.
The fact that many detainees are not being held as criminals and pose no real threat, yet are still forced to live under prison-like conditions in which they are subject to beatings, injuries, and untreated illnesses, seems absurd, especially given our country's basic belief in just treatment and protection of basic rights.
The government's overall failure to provide these detainees with legal protections, especially for those who aren't a threat to society, isn't surprising given its history of inadequate of questionable immigration legislation; it seems time for the government to step in and fix what has been described as a "dangerously broken" system, for the sake of human rights if nothing else.
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