That was the early headline on NBCLatino on line as the story of the release broke. The tone of that headline and the happy-face story that follows illustrates how compliant media can create the appearance that "the system works" when the evidence is overwhelming that American immigration law is unjust and the Obama administration policy that has deported more that 1.7 million people is cruel and inhuman.
That much is clear from the experience of the Dream 9, whose civil disobedience took the unusual step of committing a legal act for which they assumed they would be arrested and jailed. The legal act? Crossing the border and asking the authorities for asylum. The government obliged by arresting and sending them to a for-profit prison, where they were further mistreated.
As reported August 1 on Colirlines.com, CCA's mistreatment included singling out "ringleaders" for special, attention:
"Shortly after arriving at Eloy, the Dream 9 say their phone use was unfairly restricted. In protest, they began a hunger strike--but six were placed in solitary confinement for their decision to do so".
"At the time of publication, 24-year-old Lulu Martinez and 22-year-old Maria Peniche have spent 104 out of the last 108 hours in complete isolation". when Martinez and Peniche are brought out of their individual cells and into the yard once a day, they are shackled and interact only with guards".
"Thesla Zenaida, who met the Dream 9 at Eloy and is now participating in a hunger strike along with other women detainees, explained in a phone call that a guard's treatment at the detention facility drove a fellow detainee to suicide.
"'Look, a girl hanged herself. A girl was hanged here. [After] she was hanged, they didn't want to take her body down. And for the same reason--because they treat us poorly. A guard treated her poorly, and that guard is still working here. They us like the worst dogs.'"
Jesus Magana Is A Citizen And An Air Force Veteran -- His Sister Is A Prisoner
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