Finally got a chance to read this important book by @crimmigration that begins & ends w/the story of our client Diego, imprisoned from the age of 1 to the age of...
3, after courts, including the Supreme Ct, denied him freedom. What crime did Diego commit that ended up in prison? Well, his mother drew the short end of the...
straw when lined up before CBP at the border as they randomly chose who would be detained & who would be released to family in the U.S. to await their court hearing. They came to seek...
asylum. The book reveals the truth abt imm prisons: that they're built on a foundation of smoke & mirrors, for politican gain & to profit off the suffering of human beings. I'll end with a quote from the....
book: "It is not enough to ask that immigration prisoners not be killed, straved, physically abused, or sexually assaulted...[I]t is time to abolish immigration prisons. ..To deny some people core features of human existence simply...
because they lack gov'l authorizations to cross certain lines marked on maps, lines that from time to time move or disappear, is to deny migrants their ability to realize their humanity." #AbolishICE
*starved
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