The campaign against immigration in the United States increases the demand for private prisons
Since his return to the White House, President Donald Trump has been making unremitting efforts to fulfill his promise to carry out the largest deportation of immigrants in the history of the United States, which raises the dissatisfaction of some Americans, but others benefit from the boom of demand for special detention centers.
Immigrants arrested by the elements of the migration and customs enforcement agency, they must be temporarily placed in centers such as the facility, such as those equipped in California City, before their deportation.
“When you talk to the majority of the population here, you find that they have a positive view on this,” said Marquette Hawkins, mayor of California City, which is 15,000 people and 160 km north of Los Angeles. “They look at economic repercussions, right?”
California City will include a sprawling detention center that will be operated by Corsific, one of the largest companies in this private sector. The company says the facility will create about 500 jobs and generate two million dollars in the city’s tax returns. “Many residents of the city have been employed to work in that facility,” Hawkins told the French Press Agency. He added, “Any source of income can help the town in rebuilding itself and re -providing its image, will be welcome and viewed positively.”
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The campaign against the migration that Trump intensified, such as those that sparked protests in Los Angeles, resulted in a record number of 60,000 people in June, according to the Immigration and Customs Administration figures.
These numbers show that the vast majority of detainees have no rulings against them, despite the promises of the election campaign for the president to pursue dangerous criminals, while more than 80 percent of detainees are located in facilities run by the private sector, according to the “Track” project.
With Washington’s instructions to increase the number of daily arrests 3 times and allocate $ 45 billion to new detention centers, the sector is looking forward to an unprecedented boom. In this regard, the CEO of Corsific, Dienn Heninger, said in a phone call with investors in May: “The history of our 42 -year -old company has never seen this size of activity and demand for our services as we are witnessing now.”
When Trump took his second presidential term in January, there were about 107 working detention centers. Now the number ranges around 200.
For democratic politicians, this increase is deliberate, as Congress member Norma Torres told reporters in front of a detention center in the city of Adelano, southern California.
At the beginning of the year, 3 people were held there. Now, there are hundreds and each of them generates the operating company daily allocations of taxpayer money. Torres was not allowed to visit the facility run by the company “GEO”, because it did not make a notice of that 7 days ago, she said, adding that “depriving members of Congress from reaching private detention facilities such as Adelano is not just an insult, but rather a dangerous and illegal matter and a desperate attempt to hide the violations behind these walls.” And she continued: “We heard horrific stories about detainees who were subjected to violent detention, deprivation of basic medical care and isolation for days, and they were left with injured without treatment.”
“Six or seven hours to obtain clean water.” She added that the water “is not clean and certainly is not … compatible with basic human rights.”
Hansberger, who spends hours on the road from one center to another to reach its clients, says many have been deprived of obtaining legal advice, a constitutional right in the United States.
GEO and Customs and Immigration Department denied accusations of ill -treatment in detention centers. “The allegations of overcrowding or bad conditions in the migration and customs agency facilities are incorrectly incorrect.” She added, “All detainees get appropriate meals and medical treatment, and they have opportunities to communicate with their families and their lawyers.”
Bathing is forbidden
However, relatives of some detainees tell a different story. Alejandra Morales, an American citizen, said that her husband, who does not hold documents, was detained in isolation from the outside world for five days in Los Angeles, before transferring him to Adelano. At the detention center of Los Angeles, “they are not allowed to clean their teeth, to shower, nor anything. They all force them to sleep on a ground in a dungeon, ”according to Moralis. Hansberger indicated that for detainees and their relatives, their treatment seems deliberate. She added, “They started to feel that it is a strategy to deplete people and put them in these inhuman circumstances, and then pressure them, to sign something through which they agree to deport them.”
