Gillibrand says she would not detain immigrants

[brooklynite]

Politico

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a contender for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president, said Sunday she would not use the detention system for immigrants to the United States if elected president.

"As president of the United States, I wouldn’t use the detention system at all," Gillibrand told host Margaret Brennan on CBS’ "Face the Nation."


"They don’t need to be incarcerated," the New York Democrat said when pushed by Brennan. "If they are given a lawyer and given a process, they will follow it. They can go into the community in the way we used to handle these cases under the Department of Justice."

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement Saturday it has 16,000 migrants in custody and called the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border a "humanitarian and an operational crisis."

[Freethinker65]

1. We need more immigration lawyers and judges for processing asylum seekers.

We need economic/humanitarian aid restored to countries they are fleeing from.