The proposed use of the prison, which is operated by private company CoreCivic, has met opposition in the Buckeye State. The ALCU calls negotiations between DHS and CoreCivic troubling, considering it was just two months ago that the DOJ announced that they would end their use of private prisons. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said back in September that it was widening efforts to deport Haitians, in response to the large influx.
Haitians crossing illegally into the U.S. via the Mexican border could wind up in an Ohio prison under a federal plan to accommodate them pending immigration hearings.
The Department of Homeland Security is negotiating with the operators of the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center to lease space to house an anticipated influx of Haitian illegal immigrants, according to the Wall Street Journal. Officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division of DHS, expect thousands from the impoverished island nation to cross…
