We Are All Suspects Now: Response

I was particularity shocked by the horrific treatment of the refugees and detainees while they were in the government's control. It is appaling to know that such great injustices and violations of rights are being comitted in today's world of sophistication. The account given by the detainee in the Metropolitian detention center was disturbing. He describes being abused by the guards as they force him to strip down and give him a beating, "They cuffed my arms and legs and dragged me on the floor. Lt. Cush started to kick me on my back and at the same time DeFrancisco punched me in my stomach and punched my left jaw near my ear..." (13). Abuse like this is particulary horrific because it is completely unwarrented and undeserved. The people being attacked and abused here are victims of, not only the tradegies they faced during their persecution in their own country, but now are victims of a new foregin hostility prompted by nonexistant correlations based on the new War on Terror.
I was also suprised to read about the magnitude of people these policies and court rulings affected. More than 200,000 people each year are held in immigration detention prisons, and there is such a need for these prisons, that the government must employ private jails to house all the people pending deportation and trial. It is amazing that the one court decision ruling in favor of Jama's deportation affected up to 8,000 other Somalis (42). I was also suprised to see the discrimination of the government aganist foreign peoples trying to make America their home. This prejudice was made apparent when President Bush refused to sign the President Determination allowing 80,000 refugees to settle in the U.S.. When President Bush did agree to sign it, he lowered the number to 70,000 and of this number only 27,000 refugees were admitted.
So far, the overall cruelity and coldness of the Immigration system towards the aspiring refugees and undocumented aliens in the US has been shocking.

Question: Do you believe that the United States should accept all refugees seeking asylum in our country? And how should the distinction be made between who can stay and who cannot?