Whatever differences of opinion may exist on the subject of immigration, there can be no doubt that the way asylum seekers are treated in the United States is unconscionable.

Already traumatized from persecution in their native lands, asylum seekers upon entering the United States are immediately strip-searched, handcuffed, shackled and herded into warehouses or local prisons.  They remain there for upwards of two years, constantly under guard and humiliated by a total lack of privacy, including open showers and toilets.  They are denied outdoor lesiure or recreation.  They are subject to the din of TV during the day and awakened by inspections at night.  It's warehousing, it's sadistic, and, we would have hoped, it's un-American.

Please call, write or email President Obama, your Senators and your Representatives with a simple message: treating asylum seekers as warehouse inventory is neither necessary for national security nor excusable for a nation under God.  Contact the  Executive Office (www.whitehouse.gov/contact), your senators (www.senate.gov) and representatives (www.house.gov).