Immigration: Don’t blame detention centers

Re: “Tacoma should be supporting immigration protesters,” (TNT, Matt Driscoll column, 7/1).

Driscoll has been drinking the Kool-Aid too long. Perhaps he should get out among regular folks for a change.

In this commentary, he uses the adjective “for profit” when describing the Northwest Detention Center. As if it should operate at a loss?

Lets get real, European leaders are losing to immigrant reform-minded individuals. They have been forced to build detention facilities in Africa to hold and house immigrants crossing their borders illegally, for fear of losing the popular vote.

Detaining families is not child abuse, as much as dragging along a child 2,000 miles in order to commit a crime.

And doesn’t it seem strange that all of the immigrants caught crossing into our country illegally are fleeing death threats or political abuse?

Each immigrant’s story must be verified as much as is possible, and because they have no place to go, detention is the only means without allowing them to run free in our country.

Why pick on the detention centers?