August 6, 2009, IR Summary/NYT - The Obama administration may announce a new plan on Thursday to overhaul the Immigration Policy, the issues of detaining violators in a more better civil detention system. The whole program is a time consuming one in its completion, since the reform includes reviewing the federal government’s contracts with more than 350 local jails and private prisons. The shifting of detainees in the right places is very important and that shall naturally take a long time.

God Believers, a social cum divine world peace mission body, has appreciated the new thinking of reform by President Obama, even though this program may take many months, or a few years but once it is completed, it shall be a great victory for Obama’s balanced thinking in preserving the noble mission of human rights to which every criminal is entitled a concession of being a human being. 

God Believers are of the opinion that even the hard core criminals should be treated like human beings and not brutally, . The detainee camps don’t mean a butcher houses, whatever punishment they deserve should be given to them but during and till the trial, he or she must be treated as a human being and not a made and wild animal.

Swamy (Dr.)Raj Baldev, Cosmo Theorist, Chairman of God Believers, believes, President Obama’s policy of Detainees Reform and his sort corner for the human rights shall most certainly be rewarded by Almighty whom he believes in.  Dr.Raj Baldev also hailed the policy framed by John Morton, who heads the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency as assistant secretary of homeland security.

The plan aims to establish more centralized authority over the system, which holds about 400,000 immigration detainees over the course of a year, and more direct oversight of detention centers that have come under fire for mistreatment of detainees and substandard — sometimes fatal — medical care.

One move starts immediately: the government will stop sending families to the T. Don Hutto Residential Center, a former state prison near Austin, Tex., that drew an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit and scathing news coverage for putting young children behind razor wire.

“We’re trying to move away from ‘one size fits all,’ ” John Morton, who heads the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency as assistant secretary of homeland security, said in an interview on Wednesday. Detention on a large scale must continue, he said, “but it needs to be done thoughtfully and humanely.”

Hutto, a 512-bed center run for profit by the Corrections Corporation of America under a $2.8 million-a-month federal contract, was presented as a centerpiece of the Bush administration’s tough approach to immigration enforcement when it opened in 2006. The decision to stop sending families there — and to set aside plans for three new family detention centers — is the Obama administration’s clearest departure from its predecessor’s immigration enforcement policies.

So far, the new administration has embraced many of those policies, expanding a program to verify worker immigration status that has been widely criticized, bolstering partnerships between federal immigration agents and local police departments, and rejecting a petition for legally binding rules on conditions in immigration detention.

But Mr. Morton, a career prosecutor, said he was taking a new philosophical approach to detention — that the system’s purpose was to remove immigration violators from the country, not imprison them, and that under the government’s civil authority, detention is aimed at those who pose a serious risk of flight or danger to the community.

Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, said last week that she expected the number of detainees to stay the same or grow slightly. But Mr. Morton added that the immigration agency would consider alternative ways to assure that those who face deportation — and are not dangerous — do not flee.

Reviewing and redesigning all facilities, programs and standards will be the task of a new Office of Detention Policy and Planning, he said. Dora Schriro, special adviser to Ms. Napolitano, will become the director, assisted by two experts on detention management and medical care. The agency will also form two advisory boards of community groups and immigrant advocates, one focusing on detention policies and practices, the other on detainee health care. More