More than 300,000 immigrants languish in detention centers around the country. Why are they there - and who is profiting from their imprisonment?
See the rest of this truly disturbing article here:http://www.truth-out.org/a-long-stay61888
I wish that Obama would say, "It's really hard to change established patterns of doing things in this country. Many of us want to do the moral thing, the right thing, but we face stormy seas." I wish he'd remind people of a simile he used at the beginning of his presidency, of the difficulty of changing the course of an oceanliner, but every degree makes a difference.
And finally, I wish he'd give a speech in which he would at least acknowledge the immorality of certain situations which continue in this country, like especially the increasing demonization of immigrants and the growing harshness of their treatment under his administration (just to mention one situation of many, many....)