When reading the article The Criminalization of Immigration and the Privatization of the Immigration Detention: Implications for Justice by Alissa R. Ackerman and Rich Furman, it was a surprising fact that I’ve never wondered about. As an immigrant with documented papers and living in California, I don’t have to worry about Alabama’s HB 56, The Beason Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act that make it stricter for undocumented immigrants to seek for jobs and driver/business licenses. However, I feel that these laws prohibit many undocumented immigrants to live their everyday lives. These people are running from their home country to America because of opportunity just like documented immigrants. Also, It’s because they don’t have anyone sponsor them to the US, many of them choose to cross the border for a better life, but will face more challenges for an illegal act according to the federal law. The biggest problem is private state prisons who want to lock up undocumented immigrants for their own profits. As the authors implied that these private prisons, such as Correction Corporations of America and GEO Group mainly focusing on getting profit by locked up as many inmates as possible, including undocumented immigrants. Living in the USA illegally is not a criminal act, but many state legislators make it hard for undocumented immigrants to live within their state. Moreover, while states are trying to decrease their prison populations which will result in the private prison corporations decreased in revenue. Therefore, they move on to immigrant detention and, instead of releasing the inmates from state prisons, the offenders might end up in private prison for the remaining of their sentence. I can see that businesses are too powerful and they would want to take advantage of the weak for their own goods. These situations always occur when they see an opportunity to oppress others rather than lifting them up.
Why many corporations don’t focus on supporting and improving society for everyone but themselves?
References:
Ackerman, Alissa R. and Rich Furman. 2013. “The Criminalization of Immigration and the Privatization of the Immigration Detention: Implications for Justice.” Contemporary Justice Review 16(2):251–63.
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