Detainment

An immigration enforcement program, Secure Communities immigration enforcement program, caused an American citizen to be illegally detained. Secure Communities has been around since 2008. The purpose of the program is to share fingerprints from state and local police forces with immigration authorities to identify and deport thousands of people. The ideology was to be able to identify convicts and deport them back. Thus far, all they've gotten are immigrants with petty crimes or no crimes at all.

This problem does not just involve immigrants, but also American citizens. The American Civil Liberties and other groups have found four American citizens who have been kept under detainment through the fingerprint-sharing program. People have been arrested,  then once they are "released," they are kept in detainment due to the immigration authorities.

Antonio Montejano, 40, was arrested for a diminutive and petty crime. He pleaded guilty and a judge had released him. However, he was detained for two days in a prison cell with no bed or mattress. He reported that he would tell the officers that he was an American citizen and no one would believe him.

Story is taken from LA Times

Any form of detainment is horrible. In our own backyards we are keeping our own American citizens locked up. This is not right, it's violating their own freedoms and rights. We can not be repeating history; remember when we detained the Japanese?