Hormone treatments for transgendered detainees, abortion services and extensive outlets for complaints — these are just a few of the reasons Texas Republican House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith is not pleased with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) recently released Performance-Based National Detention Standards (PBNDS).

In the spirit of detention reform, in 2011, for the first time since 2008, ICE finished its revision of detention standards for those being held for being in the country illegally. Those new standards were released this month. ICE has already started to implement the changes.

“PBNDS 2011 is crafted to improve medical and mental health services, increase access to legal services and religious opportunities, improve communication with detainees with limited English proficiency, improve the process for reporting and responding to complaints, reinforce protections against sexual abuse and assault, and increase recreation and visitation,” an ICE representative explained in its PBNDS fact sheet.

According to Smith, however, the revisions amount to a vast and expensive expansion of privileges.

“The Obama administration’s new detention manual is more like a hospitality guideline for illegal immigrants,” Smith wrote in a statement. “The administration goes beyond common sense to accommodate illegal immigrants and treats them better than citizens in federal custody.”

The standards chronicle a wide range of amenities and rights accorded to each detainee during their stay, including extensive regulations on things such as body searches, room space, recreational time, visitation, the interaction ICE officials can have with them and food expectations — including adherence to detainee dietary restrictions. (RELATED: Full coverage of illegal immigration)

The standards also outline a wide range of medical procedures available to those in detention facilities, including services such as abortion access, hormone treatments for transgendered people, dental work and a 15-day supply of medications upon release, deportation or transfer.


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/01/transgender-hormone-treatments-abortion-access-for-detained-illegals-irks-congressman/#ixzz1nykhNuGH

 

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People should be allowed to sneak over the border to get their free transgender hormone treatments if they can't get them in Bolivia.

Anything that speeds up the economic demise of this country I am in favor of.

That sounds like something an asshole would say.

 

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destruction breeds creation

 

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If they're already treated for it and their script runs out while in prison I do think that it's fair to continue that prescription... assuming that ICE can contact the Doctor to verify it's legality.

If they decide they want to start taking it while in jail... not something I'm cool with.

Maybe we should start billing the Country of Origin; requiring payment prior to processing...

 

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a traitor to our country. seize him.