Every mother, child, attorney, and advocate who manages to leave the Obama administration's jail-like facilities in Texas and Pennsylvania does so with a series of sickening anecdotes.  Every friend, family member, or colleague who learns of the detention centers for the first time is shocked to learn that this is actually happening on American soil.  Yet, the same president who has pledged to do all he can to expand legal opportunities for immigrants through executive action is simultaneously leading the charge to make refugee internment a permanent feature of our already expansive private prison system designed to incarcerate non-citizens.