Something I came across on Hulu. The T. Don Hutto was a facility run in Taylor, Texas by the Corrections Corporation of America. It held Immigrant females and their children while they awaited either a court date or deportation, in clearly inhumane conditions.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/178293/the-least-of-these

No matter where you stand on the issue of immigration, the bottom line is the people who cross our borders, legally or illegally, are still human beings. I would like to believe that the United States stands for something better than treating fellow human beings who have not been convicted of any crime, and especially children, as just that: human beings. I think their legal status as American citizens is really irrelevant. In this country, we treat people as people.

Another interesting point here is the outsourcing of the work to the Correctional Corporation of America. Arguably one of the worst forces in the American justice system, the outsourcing to private institutions of what is a very national issue whether it is in regard to the containment of Immigrants awaiting the status of their legality to the incarceration of citizens who have broken laws is a rather sickening prospect. The very word 'correctional' are obviously laughable, as we're all well aware of the lack of 'correctional' action being taken in our prison system.

This same Corporation who control prisoners of all sorts throughout the nation were also in charge of entire families?

The ACLU filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2007. In 2009 the facility stopped holding families, and currently only holds females.

When the often heated topic of immigration comes up, people often forget the human side of the story, that those involved aren't always out to do any harm but merely to provide a life for their children. American or not, all people on this planet have rights.