Many immigrants call “United States" the land of opportunities and freedom, is it really the land of freedom? I know immigration has been a struggle and issue for the United States for the longest period of time. However, it is unfair to have Detention Centers in America, many of these Detention centers hold innocent families whose only dream is to come to America to pursue the American Dream. Having innocent people in a prison eerily reminds me of the holocaust, by keeping them captive and away from society they are being subjected to harsh living conditions and their kids who are born on American soil are being treated like they are illegal aliens instead of citizen who deserve the right as any American does. The real purposes of the detention centers are as asylum for the refugees who have escaped the horror of their own nation. Refuges have to stay at the detention centers for some period of time until they have a court hearing.
These refuges have to procced through a “merits hearing” before an immigration judge, if the authorities believe that if the applicant failed to appear for that court date, they require to make bond payment for guarantee, or place the refuge on a tracking bracelet. If a judge denies the bond, he/she can keep the refuge in a detention camp until the merits hearing. The horror these refuges face in these detention camps should be subject to investigation, innocent people are oftentreated like animals, it is unfair. Children under the age of six are raised to a diet of tortillas, rice and chicken bits, and the cafeterias in all the detention camps are worse than the penal jails. Having kids go through this iskind of experience will scar them for life. Horrifying notonly because it is a detention camp but also they could be without medicines or a doctor or food. People are suffering and some of them might be dying or have a contagious disease and just like a lot of prisons, most the detention centers are owned by private corporations. They could care less for how the people suffer no matter how many of them are sick, hungry the only thing they care about it is the funds they get from the government.
Just because they are immigrants they shouldn’t be treated that way, so is the “United States” really the land of the free. Not in my eyes, we cannot blame every immigrant by the actions of the few or their whole nationality everyone has done something nor because of our race be it white, black, or Hispanic. Everyone has done something illegal, but that doesn’t mean we have the right to judge their whole race. We do not know what the people go through only god knows. Having cruelty in detention camps is the most inhumane thing, I do understand that some of them came illegally but there’s no reason to treat them like if they are not humans who have feelings and seeing their kids go through somethinglike this, it’s not what the American Dream stands for.
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This is an issue that I wasn't really educated in so it was interesting to read your blog and then do research of my own. The only criticism I really have for the structure of your article is that this would have been much more impressive if you had links to other news outlets and articles of the conditions of these camps from people who were there. Honestly when I first read your blog I thought that you were forcing your opinion on a subject that you had no real facts in, because in 2016 it is ridiculous that these camps would be worse than our prisons. So I did my research, and you were right. The conditions of these places and the people that are forced to be there are inhumane and terrible. Especially when you have children involved with the system.
Which is exactly what CNN's article exposes, as well as presidential candidate Donald Trump's views on the immigration issue are. There is also an article written by a lawyer who shows first accounts on the problems these families face in these camps. It is very interesting stuff that our media of course keeps from the main points of view. What is worse to me is that this is a multi-billion dollar industry, yet these families are in the worst conditions. It is also sad that this topic has become almost a hate campaign against those who are Hispanic. As if there aren't European or Canadian illegal immigrants here. Now although I understand how ironic it is that our country was founded and built on immigration and those fleeing their countries for a better way of life, for us to then make a huge deal on immigration. I still have an issue with articles, post, and opinions of others on this topic.
For one, to say this is like the Holocaust is a huge stretch. I don't think anything like the Holocaust or the enslavement of Blacks in this country can ever be compared to what is happening today. That statement alone discredits the real horrors that those involved had to go through. My other problem is that I see no one coming up with a real solution. Immigration laws are necessary to keep from overpopulation. We may not be the best country in the world but we are a hell of a lot better than many others, and it is impossible for us to take in any one who is looking for a better life. So although these camps need to be redesigned and fixed, what is the next step? We cant do away with these camps or this system. I thinks the camps need to have better health care, better legal advice and understanding to the detainees, and a better environment that keeps these people living with dignity during this hard time. But we cant get rid of the camps and immigration laws. What we need to do in my opinion is improve them.
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