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15 Santa Clara J. Int'l L. 1 (2017)

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Migrants Resist Systemic Discrimination and Dehumanization in Private, For-Profit Detention
Centers




              Migrants Resist


              Systemic


              Discrimination and


              Dehumanization in


              Private, For-Profit


              Detention Centers

              Elvia R. Arriola* and Virginia M. Raymond**




       It gives me much pleasure to participate in this hunger strike. I
       cannot bear this punishment any more. I am dying of desperation,
       of this injustice, of this cruelty. We are immigrants, not criminals.
       To treat us like this-they must have no heart, they are of iron-as
       if we are not human. They treat us like dogs.I


Maribel, in the T. Don Hutto Detention Center, Taylor, Texas, October, 2015









*   Professor Emerita of Law, Northern Illinois University. Professor Arriola is also executive director
    of Women on the Border, Inc. (http://www.womenontheborder.org).
**  Esq. and Ph.D., Virginia Marie Raymond earned her A.B. at Bryn Mawr College, and her J.D., M.A,
    and Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. She opened her solo immigration law practice in
    2013, and has spent a great deal of her time devoted to advocacy for immigrants and refugees de-
    tained in Central and South Texas.
1.  Maribels full statement about the strike is at the Grassroots Leadership website. Maribel, M's Letter
    (2015), http://grassrootsleadership.org/sites/default/files/uploads/M%27s%201etter.pdf.


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