US Jails and Anti-Immigrant Practices: Incarceration of Families and Individuals

This is a summary of reports about jails where la Migra (ICE) detains families and individuals SUSPECTED of violating U.S. immigration law. In this summary you will find links to information regarding current conditions of incarceration provoked by U.S. immigration law and lived by those incarcerated.

Democracy Now (DN) and the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, report on two corporate owned jails one in Berks County, Pennsylvania and the other in Texas, the "T Don Hutto Residential Center," owned by the Corrections Corporation of America. DN's transcript of the
report is at http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/23/1530247 or video, http://www.democracynow.org/index.pl?issue=20070223. DN's Amy Goodman interviewed Michelle Brane, director of the Detention Asylum Program at the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, and co-author of “Locking Up Family Values: The Detention of Immigrant
Families.” This report's pdf is on the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children's home page http://www.womenscommission.org/. Additionally, if you click on the following link you will find the Corrections Corporation of America's list of its detention center
locations http://www.correctionscorp.com/facilitylist.cfm . (If you poke around this
site, you will also find other information regarding the Corrections Corporation of America's essential role in the continued "success" of the incarcelation business.)

For a corporate press slide show of the corporate owned, U.S. federal government called "T. Don Hutto Residential Center," click http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17280662/. You will also find a corporate press article about family dentention centers. The centers for incarceration for people believed to have violated U.S. immigration law are called "residential centers," instead of prisons.

And if you happen to be in Colorado, incarcerated for POSSIBLY violtaing U.S. immigration law, you can be found picking peppers, onions and melons under the watchful eye of prison guards,
http://migrawatchlist.blogspot.com/2007/03/migrawatch-public-colorado-to-use.html .

This information proves that both the federal government immigration laws and Corporate America, such as current corporate agricultural methods and the Corrections Corporation of America, simultaneously implement violations of human rights and support language, ideas, and practices that justify the hatred of immigrants, to maintain profits and political power. Conversely, those who disagree with these practices and ideas, need to continue organizing and empowering our welcoming community in solidarityand love, disregarding profits and political power.

Mad props to everyone dedicated to educating each other about violations of human rights and acting to keep those rights intact and for a just world, against discriminatory and violent practices. Viva el pueblo!