Federal Detention: Humane for all

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Post Intelligencer - Jul. 16 (Editorial) - Behind our backs, much is being done in the name of Americans that should shame us. We count a new report on the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, which houses immigrants believed to be here illegally, as the latest example of that sorry phenomenon. OneAmerica, a respected advocacy group, and the International Human Rights Clinic at Seattle University's law school found problems in health care, excessive strip searches and frequent delays for attorneys trying to talk to clients. Those are serious issues in a rapidly growing facility.

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The myth of trafficking

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New Statesman - By Brendan O'Neill - Mar. 31 (Review) - Agustín's contention is that the new "discourse" on migrants (in which many of them, especially the women and children, are seen as "victims of trafficking" in need of rescue) is also built on ideological foundations. Like its demented cousin - tabloid hysteria about foreign scroungers - the trafficking scare is based on a deeply patronising view of migrants, rather than any hard statistical evidence that human trafficking is rife.

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Federal Detention: Humane for all

The myth of trafficking