US Abuses Immigrants
Posted on | March 30, 2009 |
Immigration Detention story. I’m sending you to Free Speech Radio News which took my story and paid me–the first time I earned money on an assignment!
This story opened my eyes to our countries treatment of prisoners. Read “Hellhole” in the New Yorker on solitary confinement. Its torture and we know without a doubt why its torture. Yet the number of supermax prisons have grown to a pandamonium since the 1980s. Atul Gawande writes that its a cultural phenomenon that is related to our acceptance of torture and our willingness to discard the Geneva Convention. There’s no doubt it’s also related to our willingness to mistreat foreigners because they are not us. They are the other.
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