Home Institution
Occidental College
Publication Date
Spring 2020
Abstract
My research paper investigates the responses of the U.S. immigration detention system to the COVID 19 pandemic and determines the capacity of the detention centers to keep detained individuals alive and healthy. As I analyze their capacities, I look to past detention center outbreaks, updated public health resources, reports on ICE facility conditions and the testimonies of migrant people who were detained during the COVID 19 crisis. The urgency of the COVID 19 pandemic is why I dedicate part of my paper to what needs to be done to prevent the situation from worsening. In drawing from these various sources, I argue that keeping migrant people in detention during a pandemic will result in mass death, which is why we must demand the freedom of all detained people.
Mi artículo de investigación investiga las respuestas del sistema de detención de inmigración de Estados Unidos a la pandemia COVID 19 y determina su capacidad para mantener a las personas detenidas vivas y saludables. Mientras analizo sus capacidades, miro a brotes pasados en los centros de detención, los recursos de salud pública actualizados, los informes sobre las condiciones de los centros y los testimonios de las personas migrantes que fueron detenidas durante la crisis de COVID 19. La urgencia de la pandemia COVID 19 es la razón por la que dedicó parte de mi documento a lo que hay que hacer para evitar que la situación empeore. Al extraer de estas diversas fuentes, sostengo que mantener a los migrantes detenidos durante una pandemia dará lugar a una muerte masiva, por lo que debemos exigir la libertad de todas las personas detenidas.
Disciplines
Emergency and Disaster Management | Epidemiology | Human Rights Law | Immigration Law | Latin American Languages and Societies | Latin American Studies | Migration Studies | Politics and Social Change | Virus Diseases
Recommended Citation
Rojas, Salma, "COVID 19 in U.S. Migrant Detention Centers: The Call for Freedom in the Face of a Global Pandemic" (2020). Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection. 3330.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/3330
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Emergency and Disaster Management Commons, Epidemiology Commons, Human Rights Law Commons, Immigration Law Commons, Latin American Languages and Societies Commons, Latin American Studies Commons, Migration Studies Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, Virus Diseases Commons
Program Name
Mexico: Migration, Borders, and Transnational Communities