The Washington Post’s Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein have part two in a series that started Sunday on detained U.S. immigrants. These immigrants are sent to obscure compounds run by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm.

The 33,000 detainees look to have fewer legal rights and medical care than even people at maximum-security prisons or Guantanamo Bay. This is despite the fact that most have never been convicted of a crime.  Most are accused of either overstaying visas or abetting criminal actions. Priest and Goldstein argued in part one that this is what happens when government, as embodied in the post-9/11 Dept. of Homeland Security, conflates immigration with terrorism.  Read Priest and Goldstein here.  MB

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