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Thanks for setting this up! I kept meaning to look for a dedicated thread in D&D because the topic can get swallowed up in the other US threads. Would you be into setting up a reading list for the OP, like in the USPOL threads of yore? Good reporting on the subject takes months, sometimes years of research to turn out a single article, and it will often be overshadowed by the scandal du jour. I'll try to find and share pieces I've read. In particular, if anyone else has anything covering the way immigration enforcement is feeding into the prison-industrial complex, please share - I'm sure there's a lot going on that's not getting picked up.
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This is the first one that came to mind. It was shared in the Trump thread, but for the benefit of anyone who can't handle 10,000 posts an hour: Sarah Stillman - "When Deportation Is a Death Sentence" (New Yorker, January 15, 2018 issue) quote:Ana Lopez, the mother of a twenty-year-old gay asylum seeker named Nelson Avila-Lopez, wrote a letter to the U.S. government during Christmas week in 2011, two months after Immigration and Customs Enforcement accidentally deported him to Honduras. Nelson had fled the country at seventeen, after receiving gang threats. He’d entered the U.S. unauthorized and been ordered removed, but an immigration judge then granted him an emergency stay of his deportation so that he could reopen his case for asylum. An ICE agent told his family’s legal team that Nelson was deported because “someone screwed up,” and ICE alleges that the proper office had not been notified of the judge’s stay. (Be warned, it gets pretty gruesome at points. But for a group that's been so dehumanized, sometimes it takes that gut reaction to remember that these are people.) "Madison Paul - How a Private Prison Company Used Detained Immigrants for Free Labor, and what it could mean for the future of immigration detention in America." (Mother Jones, April 3, 2017) quote:The lawsuit also argues that the sanitation policy violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, a modern anti-slavery statute. To maintain cleanliness in the housing units, GEO used housekeeping crews like the one Ortiz was assigned to when he arrived at Aurora. According to GEO’s local detainee handbook, refusing to clean was considered a “high moderate”-level offense and was punishable by several possible sanctions, including up to three days of so-called “disciplinary segregation”: solitary confinement. Plaintiff Demetrio Valerga told the court in a statement that he “did the work anyway because it was well known that those who refused to do that work for free were put in ‘the hole.'” With the sanitation policy in place, the company employed just one janitor for the 1,500-bed facility. Michelle Chen - "ICE’s Captive Immigrant Labor Force" (The Nation, October 11, 2017) quote:In a 2012 investigation of four ICE detention facilities in Georgia, the ACLU of Georgia described ICE detainees’ being held in unsanitary, inhumane, isolating conditions, and regularly forced to work full-time for about $1 to $3 a day. Because of sparse rations, ACLU reported, “some detainees began to work in the kitchen just so they could eat more…. one detainee lost 68 pounds.” Their “volunteering,” in other words, involved literally working for food. Spencer Woodman – “Private Prison Continues to Send ICE Detainees to Solitary Confinement for Refusing Voluntary Labor” (The Intercept, January 11 2018) quote:Shoaib Ahmed, a 24-year-old who immigrated to America to escape political persecution in Bangladesh, told The Intercept that the privately run detention center placed him in isolation for 10 days after an officer overheard him simply saying “no work tomorrow.” Ahmed said he was expressing frustration over the detention center — run by prison contractor CoreCivic — having delayed his weekly paycheck of $20 for work in the facility’s kitchen. ... That's about all I can handle for now. In a civilized society, there would be riots over this.
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Feb 7, 2018 03:22
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Has anyone seen anything about the way the Trump judicial appointments are likely to affect these? I know I've mostly only posted internment related items, but I didn't want this disappearing in the morass of the Trump thread today: Is there still a point where the optics are bad enough to make a difference? That it's being allowed is the result of generations of dehumanizing messaging. How do we begin walking that back?
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Mar 13, 2018 23:54
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Anna Flagg, The Marshall Project - "The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant" Hannah Dreier, ProPublica/NY Mag - "A Betrayal: The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death." After The War fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Apr 9, 2018 |
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Apr 9, 2018 13:28
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This is from about a million years ago (one month by Pre-Reckoning Time), before the first round of pictures hit the news, but here's an interview with one of the ACLU's major Immigration Rights lawyers: Why Is This Happening? Fighting a dehumanizing U.S. immigration system, with Lee Gelernt It goes through the history back to 9/11, when a lot of the current system was set in place. Very much worth a listen. There have also been some very good write-ups in the Trump thread, if you're willing to dig through several thousand pages worth of posts. There's one that was shared a few times, but I'm giving up looking for it tonight. But the (very) short answer is that you're essentially right, the difference is that they're treating every crossing as an arrestable offense, and preventing asylum seekers from the legal means of entry. After The War fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Jul 3, 2018 |
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