House GOP: Rape Prevention Measures An Unreasonable Luxury

On Wednesday, as most of official Washington was fixing its gaze squarely on the Supreme Court, the House Committee on the Judiciary convened a hearing on another issue: the supposedly posh conditions at the Department of Homeland Security's immigrant detention centers. The hearing, dubbed "Holiday on ICE" by chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), focused on the idea that Obama administration rules intended to prevent sexual abuse and inhumane conditions at Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facilities made detention too fancy. "War on Women," meet "War on Immigrant Women."

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Comments

[helenwheels74]

02:51 PM on 03/30/2012

this isn't a women's issue... men constantly get raped in prison. this is an ins/doc issue. the dems need to get a representative of amnesty international to speak to the house on this one.

[goteamobama2012]

02:34 AM on 03/30/2012

sad..but its only going to get worse!.. look at the walker polls, the sherrod brown fights, linda mcmahon, even our hero elizabeth... and the tea party, teabangelicals and ther right wing ALEC missives have their marching orders. take their country back in favor of all thats unholy and unhealthy... will the last SANE person leaving our great country.. please turn out the lights!.. across the country the rw's are still getting traction all over? i don't know what drives people to vote against themselves? oh yes, yes i do.. HATE

[Emereaux]

01:38 AM on 03/30/2012

I just don't even have the words, other than to say this is disgraceful. Sick.

[Coffee4Me]

11:34 PM on 03/29/2012

They met to discuss the supposedly posh conditions at the Department of Homeland Security's immigrant detention centers.

I think American taxpayers have made life for these guys a little too posh.

[Cunningham]

09:25 PM on 03/29/2012

Just when you think the GOPers couldn't hate women more, they prove they can.

- April 28th, 2012 -

JOIN US, PLEASE!

http://www.wearewomenmarch.net/

[synergie]

09:12 PM on 03/29/2012

Once again proving that the GOP is the party of the rapists, what is with these people and their championship of rape anyway?

[Salon du Trendyloin]

08:17 PM on 03/29/2012

Just put them in stocks. Makes it easier anyway

[stacy1467]

07:21 PM on 03/29/2012

W-W-W-WHAT?!?!?

What is up with these guys? They want to allow rape and sexual assalt in the immigration detention centers? Absolutely not. Not in my country, if I can help it. I am overwhelmingly outraged and perplexed by the GOP and their radical stance against women's health and a woman's basic human rights. I always knew they were a bit off with some of their philosophies, but this is just over the top and off the cliff. This from the side of the isle, where the majority of their constituents insist that we are a Christian Nation.

[CainStain]

02:55 PM on 03/29/2012

I would say send these politicians to a facility, so they know how it feels, but I reject the idea of giving the GOP what they want........

GOP Soap Soccer Is a Sport, Not a Deterrent.....

[K August]

01:44 PM on 03/29/2012

Just when you thought they couldn't get any worse........ the GOP proves us wrong again.

[traceymarie]

01:25 PM on 03/29/2012

Where to start.....110 deaths is "not alarming or concerning" basic human rights are bad and rape, meh, it happens. How low can you go repubs?

[lisaman]

01:16 PM on 03/29/2012

Just being reported this same group, republican house members, just rejected the Violence Against Women Act. Signed into law in 1994 by President Clinton and introduced by then Senator Joe Biden, this law had been previously reauthorized in 2000 and then again in 2005. Shame on the republicans for this continuation of the war on women.

[Weeweed Up]

01:06 PM on 03/29/2012

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) attempted to turn the immigrant rights advocates' figures against them, arguing that, comparatively speaking, the number of detainees who have died while awaiting deportation is actually quite small:

"110 deaths is not alarming to me," he explained, suggesting that immigrants were actually safer in an ICE detention center than they were "in the broader society."

But as one witness, ICE assistant director Kevin Landy, pointed out, King was comparing apples and oranges. The detention population does not mirror the broader population: Immigrants in their mid-30s generally don't die of old age.

We dragged the pond and come up with people like Steve King to speak for us? He doesn't believe that 110 lives (who's only crime was crossing the border for the majority of these detentions, nothing else). Even if they were drug dealers, they deserve to be mistreated and possibly die in U.S. detention? Mr. King, read the Bible and the way that prisoners are to be treated. This is not the way.

As someone wisely said, it's hard to believe these guys have girlfriends, much less married.

[Cunningham]

09:22 PM on 03/29/2012

I bet their hookers are saying, "NO!", these days.

[Weeweed Up]

11:46 AM on 03/30/2012

Now, now Cunningham, considering the economy nobody can turn down a job these days. Their h00kers will hold their nose while they perform the act- sort of like conservatives will do in order to vote for their wishy-washy candidate Mitt in Nov.

[StopMakingSense2]

01:05 PM on 03/29/2012

Why would rubepublican see rape as a big deal? The corporations rape them, they turn around and rape the American people. It makes them happy so why can't you get with the program?

[Lavafalls]

01:42 PM on 03/29/2012

The corporations do not rape them,
That part is consensual, in the GOP, the p stands for prostittutte

[GDWhiteman]

01:44 PM on 03/29/2012

It's rumored that it's lonely at the front of the train when you're pulling it.

[respiratorymandl]

01:20 AM on 03/30/2012

the only thing they pull is their willie

[rixse]

01:00 PM on 03/29/2012

For GOP to understand RAPE, they need to experience it. It is similar to waterboarding story. Mr. Beck screamed and whined about Waterboarding but did not have the cohones to get waterboarded himself. The reality does not dawn until it happens to you. So the civility in detention centers is translated as luxury and therefore unreasonable for any such measures that would alleviate the inhumane condition...Let it be free for all... do what you want. Then they call themselves God fearing Church going people.

Looking at the GOP, if they had their way, we would be back to the stone age, where they would roam around in a loin cloth, wield their club and drag their women by hair.

It is nauseating to see we have reached a point in history, where we are being dragged down by some (majority) of the so called "respectable" elected members in congress, who want us to return to stone age laws.

[DantesE]

10:14 PM on 03/29/2012

If the gotp had their way we would all still be single celled organisms.
libertarians wouldn't cooperate and the conservatives would be too scared since their ancestors got along just fine without it.