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15 Santa Clara J. Int'l L. 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/scjil15 and id is 1 raw text is: Migrants Resist Systemic Discrimination and Dehumanization in Private, For-Profit Detention Centers Migrants Resist Systemic Discrimination and Dehumanization in Private, For-Profit Detention Centers Elvia R. Arriola* and Virginia M. Raymond** It gives me much pleasure to participate in this hunger strike. I cannot bear this punishment any more. I am dying of desperation, of this injustice, of this cruelty. We are immigrants, not criminals. To treat us like this-they must have no heart, they are of iron-as if we are not human. They treat us like dogs.I Maribel, in the T. Don Hutto Detention Center, Taylor, Texas, October, 2015 * Professor Emerita of Law, Northern Illinois University. Professor Arriola is also executive director of Women on the Border, Inc. (http://www.womenontheborder.org). ** Esq. and Ph.D., Virginia Marie Raymond earned her A.B. at Bryn Mawr College, and her J.D., M.A, and Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. She opened her solo immigration law practice in 2013, and has spent a great deal of her time devoted to advocacy for immigrants and refugees de- tained in Central and South Texas. 1. Maribels full statement about the strike is at the Grassroots Leadership website. Maribel, M's Letter (2015), http://grassrootsleadership.org/sites/default/files/uploads/M%27s%201etter.pdf. 1