There's a tent city that holds some 2000 illegal aliens, down at the southern tip of Texas.  The inhabitants are slated to be removed from the USA and returned to their home countries.  "Catch and release" is no longer in effect, and the result, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife…er, make that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has been a dramatic decline in illegal border crossings by non-Mexicans.  Cool.  Now we just need to work harder on the Mexicans.

Of course, there are whiners:

But civil liberties and immigration law groups allege that out of sight, the system is bursting at the seams. In the Texas facility, they say, illegal immigrants are confined 23 hours a day in windowless tents made of a Kevlar-like material, often with insufficient food, clothing, medical care and access to telephones. Many are transferred from the East Coast, 1,500 miles from relatives and lawyers, virtually cutting off access to counsel.

Oh!  How terrible!  They break our laws with impunity, they are not (nor do they ever plan to become) legitimate U.S. citizens, and we're all supposed to feel sorry for them because these poor hard-working illegal aliens don't have access to legal counsel.  Aren't you about sick and tired of hearing the constant refrain about the poor hard-working "undocumented immigrants"?  That phrase is so overdone that you can't stick a fork in it.  It's like a roast that's been cooking on the grill for about a week.

With roughly 1.6 million illegal immigrants in some stage of immigration proceedings, ICE holds more inmates a night than Clarion hotels have guests, operates nearly as many vehicles as Greyhound has buses and flies more people each day than do many small U.S. airlines.

Gary Mead, assistant director of ICE detention and removal operations, said the agency is proud of its record, calling Raymondville "a modern, clean facility" that meets federal standards — "which we believe are among the highest you'll find anywhere." Mead added: "We think the conditions of confinement there are both humane and consistent with all the rights they should be entitled to."