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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention section of Kankakee's Jerome Combs Detention Center almost looks like a summer camp. There's a main floor and a mezzanine level, both packed with bunk beds. There are public showers, shielded from view by curtains, with men standing outside toweling themselves off.

But instead of campers, the facility is filled with men from across the world, from China to Haiti and Pakistan, almost all boarder violators, all awaiting deportation. And instead of T-shirts and shorts, these illegal immigrants wear standard issue jumpsuits.

The Kankakee ICE facility, which opened in October 2015, brings in $80 per day per detainee for Jerome Combs. Watched by guards on the other side of a wall of tinted glass windows, these detainees spend their time in Kankakee awaiting deportation back to their home countries.

While the detention center is in our county, many of us don't know much about the detainees and their daily lives.

There are about 10.9 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. The number has fallen every year since 2008, as immigration from Mexico slows down. According to a 2014 Pew Research Center Survey, about two-thirds of those undocumented immigrants are in the workforce, mainly in farming and construction. About two-thirds of undocumented immigrants have lived in the U.S. for more than 10 years. Detainees are held in 112 detention facilities across the country.

At any given time, there are about 100 male detainees being held at Jerome Combs. When the ICE facility opened, the first detainees were Haitian. Since then, many nationalities have been represented.

"The detainees I talked to were all border violations," said Kankakee County Sheriff Mike Downey. "That's probably the biggest legal question out there. Are they really criminals? And I don't know the answer to that."

Detainees are brought to Kankakee from across the country, many of them from California. None of the people housed there are from Kankakee County, and ICE is not performing any raids in the area.

What happens to them after they leave Kankakee?

Once a week, ICE officers arrive early in the morning to transport some of the detainees from Kankakee to the Gary/Chicago Airport via bus. From there, they're sent to facilities across the country for further processing and eventually deported to their home countries.

What are the conditions like at the detention center?

ICE detention centers are held to very specific standards and are subject to inspection. Higher grades on inspections mean the facility receives more money per detainee.

"The three most important aspects ICE looks at are medical care, food service and safety and security, and we meet all three of those things," said Downey.

During a recent inspection, Jerome Combs received a favorable review, though it was asked to make a few changes to ensure the food served to detainees was higher calorie and at a higher temperature.

Downey is pleased with the detention center's performance.

"These folks are going to be housed somewhere, and we want them to be treated as well as we'd treat our family," he said. "If you do that, you can't go wrong."

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The sky must be falling. Just a few hours ago, a Marxist feminist professor sent an email that I agreed with completely. It explained why she doesnt allow people to cut in line by enrolling in classes for which they have not yet satisfied the enrollment requirements. Im so inspired by her eloquence that I am extending her logic and banning illegal aliens from enrolling in my classes. Her inspirational email is printed below:

I do not provide overrides for students who havent completely satisfied the pre-requisites for the senior seminar to enroll. That would be like allowing (cutting) in line in front of someone else who has been waiting (his or her) turn. Once (they) have senior standing, then (they) can enroll in the class provided all the other pre-requisites are completed too Several faculty members have sent advisees to me to request an override. Im not doing them. I would appreciate it if advisers would not send their advisees to me with these requests.

In case you did not follow that, let me provide a little context. Our majors are required to take a senior seminar before they graduate. However, before they enroll in the senior seminar, they have to take two classes one in research methods and the other in statistics. Students usually take these two classes their junior year so they can be prepared to take senior seminar their senior year, which, of course, makes intuitive sense.

Of course, for every student that is less motivated than the average student there is one more motivated than the average student. In fact, some are so highly motived that they actually complete their research methods class and statistics class by the end of their sophomore year, rather than their junior year. So why not let them take the senior seminar their junior year? They have already completed the necessary prerequisites. Why hold them up based on the mere technicality that the senior seminar is only for seniors.

The answer is that allowing cutting in line has real world consequences. We have about 80 graduates per year. Thus we offer about four of these seminars per year with an enrollment of about 20 per class. That means we have just enough seats to accommodate all the graduating seniors. But if we granted registration overrides, which would allow juniors to enroll, then some seniors would be bumped out of the classes. That means they would have their graduation postponed as a result. In her email, the Marxist professor indicates she understands this and then proceeds to raise two moral objections. The first objection is explicit and the second one is implicit:

Some people who are reading this column think they know where I am going with all of this. They assume that I will try to compare students seeking overrides with illegal immigrants seeking amnesty. That assumption is born of careless thinking and is way off the mark. Allow me to correct the error and explain why the two groups are not equal.

Our students who seek early enrollment in senior seminar got into the position they are in by being responsible. They finished their prerequisites early and now seek a reward for engaging in what is indisputably good behavior. But practical considerations require us to deny their requests. In contrast, illegal immigrants who seek amnesty got into the position they are in by being criminals. They jumped the border early and now seek a reward for what is indisputably anti-social behavior. Such people dont really care about practical considerations.

So what makes some of my leftist colleagues against allowing line jumping by good students yet enthusiastically in favor of allowing line jumping by illegal immigrants? In other words, why dont they live out their professional lives the same way they live out their political lives? (For additional context see my recent column, Professor, Hypocrite, Tear Down This Wall!).

The answer of course is that all reason goes out the window when it comes to the campus lefts war on white privilege. These leftists are trying to fundamentally transform America into a Marxist utopia. And that requires nullifying the votes of those who have all the power. Their politics reigns supreme over principle, which is a nice way of saying they are hypocrites.

In contrast, I have a worldview that seeks consistency. Now, thanks to the email from my Marxist colleague, I am going to take a stand for what is indisputably morally right. From now on, I am going to check the immigration status of every one of my students. If any are illegal aliens, I will not let them remain in any of my classes. To paraphrase my colleague, to do otherwise would be allowing cutting in line in front of someone else who has been waiting his or her turn.

This is not the end of the world for illegals. Once they have earned citizenship, they can enroll in my class provided all the other pre-requisites are completed, too.

Author's Note: My leftist colleagues do not endorse this column. It makes too much sense.

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Not so, according to Brookline Police, but some think otherwise. Brookline police arrested 29 people in 2016 for driving without a valid license, at least a handful of those were not born in the US.

Last year Brookline Police issued 16,298 moving violations to motorists driving through town. Included in those violations were 29 arrests of people driving without a license.

A TAB review of the 29 arrests showed 20 of the people had faced more significant charges previously, such as driving under the influence or were wanted on warrants. The other nine were arrested because they never had a license and were driving when an officer pulled them over for a traffic offense. Of those nine, eight were Hispanic and one was black.

The review comes after a meeting discussing the town's consideration of Sanctuary City status. The question: How would police interact with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and should they be arresting people without a driver's license?

Brookline resident and Town Meeting Member Mariela Ames, a courtroom interpreter, brought the argument to the selectmen that arresting people for not having a license could unfairly put immigrants who are in the country illegally in ICE's crosshairs when the police run their fingerprints. Her husband, Brooks Ames, a lawyer, echoed the sentiments on social media.

Ames is suing a number of elected and paid town officials on behalf of a former firefighter, and for a time short time on behalf of two police officers, charging those in the suit with racism.

Brookline Police do not ask for immigration status when issuing citations or arrests, but when they arrest an individual, those fingerprints are sent to the FBI and then on to ICE. But none of the 29 individuals in 2016 arrested for not having an active driver's license while driving came back as wanted by immigration officials, although a number told police they were not born in the US.

By comparison, in 2016 the Cambridge Police arrested 1,882. Of those, 891 were not arrested on the spot, but summonsed to court. And 161 people were arrested for driving without ever having a license (chapter 90 section 10). But 138 of those were summonsed to court.

There were 147 arrests in 2016 in Wellesley. Seven of those were chapter 90 section 10, according to Wellesley Police. There were 6,395 traffic violations that same year. There were 4,994 written warnings, 1,145 civil citations, and 256 criminal complaints.

Newton Police said they arrested 19 individuals last year for driving without a license.

The police argument

Police Chief Daniel OLeary said the arrests are not personal.

Part of our job is to make sure people are safe on the roads. And stopping people who make traffic violations is a big part of that, he said. "In order for a community to have a safety on the road, the police have to have a enforcement policy thats balanced and fair. And to have people throw out at a public meeting that were not being fair when records indicate otherwise is not right. These are records they stand on their own," he said.

The state law says you cant operate a vehicle without a valid driver's license. OLeary said once an officer discovers someone does not have a valid license, its incumbent upon police to enforce the law.

Still, a 2016 policy issued to the police department reminds officers to take into consideration whether there are other people in the car who could drive the car or a prior history before calling a tow truck to pick up the car or arresting an individual who doesnt have a license.

The policy came out of conversations within the department after some officers expressed concern about whether it was necessary to tow the car away in every instance of such a violation. Officers felt it could be an undue hardship on people who might not be able to afford the cost, he said.

The arrest reports of the nine people cited for driving without a license each indicate a police officer pulled them over for traffic violations, including texting while driving, illegal left turns, failing to stop at a traffic light, failing to stop at a stop sign, speeding 15 miles over. Most individuals appeared to admit right away they had never had a license. And all had previous interactions with the police, be it previous arrests or other traffic-related infractions.

If the Brookline Police let one of these people off the hook and they drove off and got into an accident, that is a dereliction of the polices duty to keep people safe, said the chief.

Of the nine individuals arrested only for driving without ever having had a license, eight of them were Hispanic and at least three told police they were not born in the US.

But its not like the police have it out for immigrants, said the chief.

For example

Consider the practice of giving tickets out for leaf blower violations. Last year, the police worked with owners of landscaping companies and various committees in town on the problem of what to do about noise violations there.

Police voiced concerns about handing out tickets to people working for landscaping companies, many of whom might be immigrants.

Why would we issue a ticket to a guy who is probably not even making that much money? said the chief of the $100 fine.

The town and the committee tasked with looking into the towns noise bylaws around this looked into the possibility of ticketing the owner of the property.

Brookline Police has begun tracking interactions with ICE agents, noting when they receive requests from the federal agency. This is a new practice. The police chief said Brookline Police have gotten alerts from ICE six times in recent years requesting they hold individuals for them. But ICE did not show up to take any of those individuals into their custody. The chief announced his department will not honor ICE requests going forward, ahead of any official word from the Board of Selectmen.

Anthony Naro, a lawyer and member of the Diversity, Inclusion and Community Relations Commission tasked with coming up with a recommendation for the Board of Selectmen on how to amend its police police in regard to ICE and sanctuary city status, argues that it is unconstitutional for local authorities to make civil arrests on behalf of the federal government.

"Brookline deserves progressive policies which protect the constitutional rights of everyone in our community; at the same time, we need transparent policies that can be fairly, and unambiguously, executed by officers in the field, and understood by all members of the community," he said in a recent opinion piece in the TAB.

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The statement is included in testimony slated for delivery on Wednesday, April 5, by Gen. John Kelly, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Typically, routine testimonyis provided early to the legislators so they can prepare questions for the witness, but it is rarely leaked.

According to the Associated Press:

Secretary John Kelly said the steep decline in arrests is no accident and credited President Donald Trumps approach to illegal immigration

In his testimony for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Kelly said fewer than 12,500 people were caught crossing the border illegally last [in March]. That compares with more than 43,000 in December.

Kelly told lawmakers that the number of [Central American] families and children traveling alone groups that accounted for hundreds of thousands of illegal border crossers in recent years also declined steeply. Last month fewer than 1,000 children were caught at the border and fewer than 1,100 people traveling as families were found. In recent years most of the families and children traveling alone have been from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.

Another report on Tuesday said the data showed a 67 percent drop in migrants seeking to cross the border.

David V. Aguilar, former U.S. Border Patrol and acting Customs and Border Protection commissioner, told the Senate Homeland Security Committee that March 2017 figures he reviewed indicate illegal border crossings are down 67 percent [compared to March 2016] . Its actually up to 67 percent drop compared to last year, Aguilar told the Senate committee.

During his eight-yeartenure, former President Barack Obama reduced border barriers and allowed at least 300,000 migrants from Central America to cross the border and get temporary residency, plus work permits and access to Americans schools. That wave of migrants helped solidify public opposition toimmigration, aided Donald Trumps presidential campaign and helped cause many extra crimes in the United States.

However, the flow of new illegal immigrants is only a small part of the nations immigrant-labor oversupply.

Currently, at least 11 million illegal immigrantsare living in the United States, of which at least 8 million hold jobs. Many of the recent illegal immigrants arrive legally as tourists or workers but fail to leave when their visas expire. In 2015, for example, almost 500,000 people overstayed their visas and remained for some time as illegal immigrants.

Also, the federal government annually invites 1 million people to legally immigrate to the United States, and provideswork permits to a shifting population of up to 1.45 million salary-cutting white-collar guest-workers,plus at least 200,000 blue-collar contract-workers. The immigrants and contract workers compete for jobs sought by the 4 million young Americans who join the workforceeach year.

Overall, the huge inflow of migrants, both legal and illegal, help lower Americans salaries and wages by roughly $500 billion per year. In turn, that money is scooped up by employers and Wall Street investors as higher profits.

President Trump has promised to toughen border security by building a barrier along most of the border, and he has already directed border officers to end Obamas catchand release policy. He has also rejuvenated repatriation policies and has promised to curb business use of temporarycontract workers in place of Americans.

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