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Tell your Senators and Representative in the U.S. House to support the Detainee Basic Medical Care Act of 2008.

According to the Washington Post, the detainee health care system "operates with a top priority of limiting care and saving money. Its medical mission is only to keep people healthy enough to be deported."

The result is an overburdened, under-staffed, and virtually unaccountable system that exposes many asylum seekers and other detained immigrants to needless suffering, and even death.

Please urge your members of Congress today to support the Detainee Basic Medical Care Act.

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