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Detention Centers Outline
Detention Centers Outline
Detention Centers Outline
Sally Student
Ms. Voyles
English 102
19 March 2021
Thesis Statement: All immigrants deserve the rights listed and described in the United States
use of solitary confinement, the lack of access to fair and speedy trials,
and the problems regarding family separation and conditions for children
I. Some say that the bad conditions in immigrant detention centers are over exaggerated and
that detention centers are the only effective way to stop the problem of illegal
immigration.
A. The article "Immigrant Detention: Are immigrant detention centers fair and
explains that “there are limits to how lenient the government can be in processing
immigrants.”
1. The government cannot simply allow everyone who tries to enter the
country in.
2. This would cause danger for current United States citizens as well as other
B. Previous policies that have been in place in the United States have not been
effective, and therefore the country needs to encourage placing illegal immigrants
and effective?").
II. Conditions in detention centers are consistently getting worse. The use of solitary
confinement and other torturous methods in immigrant detention centers is unethical and
A. Erika Voreh, who studies alien detention centers and solitary confinement, defines
who are confined to their cells for twenty-two to twenty-four hours a day”
(291).
B. There have been many reports in detention centers regarding mistreatment of the
detainees by the guards. Not only do guards enforce solitary confinement for days
at a time, but in 2004, detention centers in New Jersey had reports of guards
twisting their fingers and wrists, and slamming them into walls” ("Immigrant
III. Immigrants being held in detention centers deserve the Constitutional right of a fair and
A. According to the Harvard Law Review, which has been publishing reports
monthly since 1887 with the purpose of creating a journal of legal scholarship,
there are many steps to being granted and allowed and fair trial.
only 14% of detainees ultimately have counsel for their defense against
attorneys to travel for many hours to meet with their clients. Once
attorneys arrive, they often wait for hours for a visitation room to become
Access to Courts.”).
have the right to a “public trial without unnecessary delay, the right to a lawyer,
1. The difficulties that immigrants face while trying to be granted a trial, find
a lawyer, meet with that lawyer, and proceed with a fair, unbiased trial are
not ethical.
2. Anyone in the United States is protected under the Constitution and should
IV. For many years, immigrant families have entered the United States and been separated
from one another. This problem has continued in the detention centers.
A. Today in the United States, families are separated from one another and forced to
1. Jamie R. Abrams, a writer for the Harvard Law & Policy Review, argues
Should Worry Us All,” she writes that immigrant families are “entitled to
1. Abrams writes that many reports have “emerged of children being forced
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Abrams, Jamie R. “Why the Legal Strategy of Exploiting Immigrant Families Should Worry Us
All.” Harvard Law & Policy Review, vol. 14, no. 1, Jan. 2020, pp. 77–129. EBSCOhost,
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“The Right to Be Heard from Immigration Prisons: Locating a Right of Access to Counsel for
Immigration Detainees in the Right of Access to Courts.” Harvard Law Review, 10 Dec.
2018,
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Voreh, Erika. “The United States’ Convention against Torture Ruds: Allowing the Use of
Centers.” Emory International Law Review, vol. 33, no. 2, Jan. 2019, pp. 287–310.
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