Two democrats from the state of California have protested with the Department of Homeland Security to end the practice of detaining families in detention centers which were, what they called “jail – like” places of great pain. The detained families in these centers had to wait for unimaginable lengths of time waiting for their cases to see the light of day.

A Republican even stated that even Syrians who had run away to neighboring Jordan to escape violence and torment in their country lived in far better conditions than the detained families in the detention centers of America.

“The Jordanians are treating the refugees from Syria a heck of a lot better than we’re treating immigrants from Honduras,” the Republican said. He was joined by many critics of the family detention centers at a news conference recently. Last week the DHS had ordered a review of the detention facilities with a view to address the broader problem, but many have rejected this, saying that these were only “cosmetic measures” and are doing nothing to address the one big problem of detention itself.

A volunteer lawyer stated that the detained families in the detention centers qualified for asylum; the volunteer said that the women and children who came away from other countries were indeed refugees and “have come here seeking protection from the horrific violence they have suffered.”