Yaire Castillo

19 October 2020

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Word Count: 419

 Ellman, Nora. Immigration Detention Is Dangerous for Women’s Health and Rights, 2019, www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2019/10/21/475997/immigration-detention-dangerous-womens-health-rights/. 

Summary: Ever since the Trump administration enforced for immigrants to be deported, ICE has been more cruel on immigrants. Racially profiling everyone who fits the description of an “immigrant.” It is no secret that Trump sexualizes and discriminates against women, he’s been very vocal on where he believes women belong. In immigration detention centers women’s health and rights are constantly being violated. The detention centers tend to discourage females and damage them mentally and emotionally  by separating them from their families not allowing them to nurture and love their children or even witnessing them grow up, neglecting medical needs and inflicting new trauma on them. Transgender women have a hard time in detention centers given the fact that they dont have access to reproductive health care. Overall, women’s rights are being violated. They are in the detention centers for a longer time and yet they do not have all the resources that they need on a daily basis. Women are being mistreated all the time and there could be a change in the system but the decision not to do anything is that, a choice. Women suffer a lot from not having all the right requirements to not having the right support and access.

Reflection: After reading this article I felt frustrated, disappointed and sad. It was hard to accept that this is the world that we are living in. Not only is it hard being a woman, but being another color that is not white and not being born in the U.S automatically creates a target on your back in order to get hunted down. Women of all different ethnicities are being detained and forcefully taken to immigration detention centers that do nothing but inflict so much damage on them. Women’s rights are not available there, it is as if they are not real. It is disrespectful to think that women, the same ones who are nurturing and loving are the same ones who are being mistreated and neglected of basic human rights, medical care, abuse and unfair treatment.

Quote: “ it is necessary to understand who the women and girls in detention are, where they are detained, and the systems that they confront when trying to access health care—including preventive and wellness services, reproductive health care, mental health care, disease and pain management, and prescription medications.”

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