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25 U. Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 187 (2014)
Liberty and Justice for All: The Violations of Basic Human Rights in Detention Centers across the United States

handle is hein.journals/ufpp25 and id is 199 raw text is: LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL: THE VIOLATIONS OF BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS IN DETENTION CENTERS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES Olga Velez* I. IN TRODUCTION ........................................................................... 187 II. B ACKGROUND ............................................................................. 188 A. A Brief History of Immigration Policy in the U nited States ........................................................................ 188 B. Increase in Immigration Enforcement Under G eorge W . B ush ................................................................... 195 C. Strict Enforcement Under Obama ........................................ 197 III. WHAT HAPPENS IF WE DO NOT Do ANYTHING ABOUT THE C URRENT STATE9 ....................................................................... 198 A . H ea lth ................................................................................... 19 9 B . Respect and Security ............................................................ 201 C . A esth etic ............................................................................... 20 1 IV. A LTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS .......................................................... 202 I. INTRODUCTION Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.' Despite the United States being a country that is supposed to support basic human rights, people are being held arbitrarily in detention facilities across the country. In the fastest growing incarceration system in the United States, 3 million people have been held in detention facilities.2 In 2009, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) held between 380,000 and 442,000 people in some 300 U.S. detention facilities, at an annual cost of * Olga Velez, J.D. 2013 University of Florida. I. Stephen P. Marks et al. eds., Health and Human Rights: Basic International Documents 2 (3d ed. 2012). 2. Gretchen Gavett, Map: The U.S. Immigration Detention Boom, FRONTLINE (Oct. 18, 2011, 7:54 PM), available at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/race-multicultural/lost-in- detention/map-the-u-s-immigration-detention-boom/.