Don’t put detention center in Crete

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Updated: March 1, 2012 8:13AM

I’m outraged over the proposed 750-bed Immigration Detention Center that is to be privately run by the Corrections Corporation of America in Crete. I live in Monee, but our son goes to Crete-Monee High School.

Mayor Michael Einhorn touts this abomination as “economic development” for the area, with 750 people being added to the local census, increasing federal funding. ICE would give the village money per head, per day.

So what’s wrong with this picture? We don’t want our “neighbors” to be forced to live in cages, fed garbage and treated miserably.

CCA is the bottom feeder of corporate America, making money off of human trafficking. The only thing they produce is misery. Families are torn apart — and for what?

Did the Indians demand “papers” of those coming off the Mayflower?

The workers at the facility will be underpaid, while the big shots will rake in obscene profits. Bucolic Crete will thereafter be known as a “prison town,” with all the problems that go with it.

Anthony Rayson, Monee

Campaigns waste millions

The megamillions that are being spent to buy (Oops! I mean to win) the presidential election, should put the politicians to shame.

People are losing their jobs, homes and their dignity. Money being spent by the Democrats and Republicans contenders could be used so much more wisely.

Look around, people! Think about the “everyman” out there.

Shame on you!

Catherine Klostermann,

Jefferson Park