Inhummane Treatment of Immigrants

[AnthonyAú]

Platform - Green Party US
  II. Social Justice
    A2. Pathway to Citizenship
             Inhummane Treatment of Immigrants

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), local police, and for-profit/private prison corporations such as GEO Group and CoreCivic have taken advantage of the increase in anti-immigrant legislation and created a symbiotic relationship. ICE's mission, "To protect America from cross border crime and illegal immigration that threaten national security and public safety.

This mission is executed through the enforcement of more than 400 federal statutes and focuses on immigration enforcement and combating transnational crime," subscribes to the belief that every Latin American citizen is a criminal.

Mass incarceration fuels the proliferation of for-profit prisons while for-profit prison corporations encourage policies that increase the number of people behind bars.

With various states implementing anti-immigrant legislation, setting up detention centers has been an easy contractual agreement with the "incentive" that they must meet 80% to 100% fill capacity for payment.

ICE reports they have paid $85,000 per incarcerated individual and a total of $807 million to 19 for-profit detention centers.
Racist policies must be abolished. Undocumented immigrants boost America's economic growth and raise the general productivity of American workers by providing much-needed skills.

Immigrant workers allow important sectors of the economy to expand, attract investment and create employment opportunities for native-born Americans, contribute more in tax revenue than they collect, reduce American firms' incentives to offshore jobs and import foreign-produced goods, and benefit consumers by reducing the prices of goods and services.

Economists estimate that legalization of the undocumented immigrant population would increase the immigrants' earnings and consumption considerably, and increase U.S. gross domestic product.