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Immigration Detention: Building Our Own Guantánamos
Some are more equal than others. According to the mainstream media, the small number of Caucasian males held prisoner by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group are entitled to liken their conditions of detention to being held at Guantánamo Bay, the US military concentration camp notorious for arbitrary detention and human rights violations. The same qualification does not apply to the tens of thousands of men, women and children worldwide held in immigration detention facilities each year on the non-existent offence of being a foreign national or stateless. - One Small Window
Since the 1980s, a number of western states have adopted a policy of detaining asylum seekers and migrants subject to deportation, for illegal entry or visa irregularities, using administrative procedures to work around legal protections and rights. The rationale is to provide a deterrent to and a means of ‘containment and control’ of migrants: the outcome is often brutal.
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