Jarrod Rudd
December 4, 2009
3:37 pm
Human Rights Watch released a report Wednesday detailing how US authorities are indiscriminately transferring thousands of detained immigrants away from their attorneys and family members in order to prevent them from fighting deportation. Since 2003, ICE—which was established under the aegis of the US Department of Homeland Security following the 9/11 attacks—has detained 1.7 million individuals in some 350 facilities, including for-profit prisons and state and local jails it contracts. This year, ICE officials say 442,000 immigrants will be detained, more than double its first year of operations. The new Human Rights Watch report noted that immigrants are often detained initially in a location near their place of residence, for example in New York or Los Angeles, where they have lived for decades and where their family members, employers, and attorneys also live. “Days or months later, with no notice,” the human rights organization says, “many of these immigrants are loaded onto planes for transport to detention centers in remote corners of states such as Texas, California, and Louisiana (the three states most likely to receive transfers),” the report found.
This is interesting to me because the issue of immigration is a very hot topic and once you look at it and form your own interpretation things can either turn out good or bad. The report said that the people are detained and then sent to detention centers which to me seem a bit inhumane. How can you detain someone and send them to a detention center when they are just trying to make a better life for themselves? Maybe I don’t understand the whole picture, but still there is a better way of treating people than this.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/dec2009/immi-d04.shtml
2 comments:
I agree that it is unfair to punish these people. But i also believe in border control. It should be made easier for these people to enter legally but in the same sense people who are here illegally are not in the right.
Whether detention of immigrants is lawful or not is a matter of law and discretion of the immigration authority.
The issue in this report is whether the detained immigrants have the right to legal representation when they face deportation. I do not know much about the US law, but I do believe that the US authority is infringing the rights of these immigrants.
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