Posts Tagged ‘immigrant detention’
Immigrant Detention is the New Money Maker
11:17 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Justice|Money · 3 Comments
18 Mar 2009
In these economic times, those with the least suffer the most and become the new fodder for the prison industrial complex.
Washington paid nearly $55.2 million to house detainees at 13 local jails in California in fiscal year 2008, up from $52.6 million the previous year. The U.S. is on track to spend $57 million this year.
The largest federal contract in the state is with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, whose 1,400-bed detention center in Lancaster is dedicated to housing immigrants either awaiting deportation or fighting their cases in court. The department received $34.7 million in 2008, up from $32.3 million the previous year.
Some smaller cities have seen their income rise much faster. Glendale received nearly $260,000 in 2008, triple what it got the previous year. In Alhambra, last year’s $247,000 was more than double the previous year’s payments.
For some cash-strapped cities, the federal money has become a critical source of revenue, covering budget shortfalls and saving positions.
Via / The LA Times y gracias to Nezua via the Twitter
Is Immigrant Justice American?
10:41 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration · 2 Comments
23 Apr 2008
While the facts about immigrant detention are important to note, I take issue with the idea that justice and human rights is an “American” value.
First, as I have noted before, it bothers me how the word “American” has been appropriated to mean the United States and exclude Latin America, including Central and South America. This to me is a framing of America that seeks to silence a large portion of the “American” population (the “voiceless” in the MLK quote).
Private Companies Love an Immigration Crackdown
11:54 am By Maegan La Mala · Controversia|Immigration|Justice · Comments Off
22 May 2006
It’s not just law and order Republicans who will gain with tougher immigration policies. Those that fund them, big corporations, are keeping their fingers crossed that tight immigration polices will keep them living large. According to an article on AlterNet today:
The United States Marshals Service, for example, is now soliciting bids from private companies to build, own, and operate a 2,800-bed detention facility near Laredo. The “superjail,” as it has come to be called, will serve the federal criminal court in downtown Laredo, which is loaded up with immigration-related cases in what the Marshals Service calls an “emergency [detention] situation.” The $100-million superjail is expected to be one of the largest private detention centers in the nation, and will join a growing chain of county and local jails and private detention facilities all over Texas that coordinate with federal agencies to hold immigrants — some destined for trials or hearings, others for deportation.
Via / AlterNet
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