Editorial, New York Times
May 15, 2015
Of all the malfunctioning parts in the country’s broken-down immigration machinery, probably the most indefensible is the detention system.
This is the vast network of jails and prisons where suspected immigration violators are held while awaiting a hearing and possible deportation. Immigrant detainees are not criminal defendants or convicts serving sentences. They are locked up merely because the government wants to make sure they show up in immigration court.
Detention is intended to help enforce the law, but, in practice, the system breeds cruelty and harm, and squanders taxpayer money. It denies its victims due process of law, punishing them far beyond the scale of any offense. It shatters families and traumatizes children. As a system of mass incarceration — particularly of women and children fleeing persecution in Central America — it is immoral.[...]
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/opinion/end-immigration-detention.html
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