are we just slightly overlooking the fact that these are not American citizens, and as such, have no civil rights

What about the doctor being sponsored for US Citizenship, but his sponsor died? True, a lot of the people that were collected probably were not in the process of obtaining a green card, but many were. Either way, holding them in stuffy small prisons isn't the right thing to do any way you look at it.

It is discrimantory, if we are collecting people of Arab descent, why aren't we collecting people of every other nationality that don't belong here, and sending them home? Its bad enough that decent, legit Arab US Citizens are being discriminated against for being Arab every day, and now this.

This is a HUGE mistake.