The United States detention centers are under a lot of controversy. Since post-Sept 11 the number of detainees in these centers has tripled due to the fear of terrorism. There has been 83 detainees have died in these centers in the past five years. Ironically, 30 of these deaths are due to the fact of medical staff not taking action to help the detainee immediately. That is just one cause to this every growing problem. The other reasons on why these people are dying, are neglectful guards, ill-trained technicians, sloppy record-keeping, missing medical files, overcrowding, and staff shortages. The people that are being put into these centers are not criminals;however, some of them are coming to the United States to seek asylum because they are feeling threaten at home. One big point that jumped out is, some of the medical staff in these centers that most of the victims are faking it when they say they are feeling sick. About one and four immigrants in these centers has a chronic health condition. Now, how can ICE say that these immigrants are faking their pain when these many are diagnosed with a chronic disease? It just puzzles me that the immigrants (people who come to the here for a better life) are being treat as bad as they were at home. Immigrants are still human beings and deserve the right to have the proper treatment as the law provides to them. But no, these centers are taking advantage of these people by killing them off. After reading, I was frustrated because now I know why some immigrants really don’t like this place when it comes to being deported or thrown in jail. They are basically been treated like animals. On the nurses was quoted saying “Dogs get better treatment in the dog pounds.” This is the determining factor that states how corrupted this system is. If you could treat an animal in the US better than a human being something has to be done.
Washington Post
By: Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein
May 11, 2008
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