Abolish ICE & Detention Centers Assignment | Get Paper Help

You can use the outline I have attached for this, but overall I need a final paper typed up that includes the following: 6-8 pages in length Double spaced, Times New Roman, 12 pt. font MLA formatting Introduction + thesis statement Body paragraphs Counter Argument Conclusion Citations in each paragraph-more than one! Please Note: These citations are done in APA style, not MLA but the same principles apply regarding number of citations/references to research per paragraph. Works cited page with at least five sources But I have several separate assignments regarding this. I need an Intro (can be a rough draft intro) that needs the following: In 5-7 sentences, create an introduction. Your paragraph should contain the following: A Hook Background Information Thesis Statement And then another assignment that will need the following: Each body paragraph should include the following: Topic Sentence Information from your sources including: Paraphrasing Direct quotes (used sparingly-only approximately 10-15% of your entire paper should be comprised of direct quotes) In-text citations formatted in MLA style Analysis Then I will need a conclusion that follows this: Restate Your Thesis Statement Summarize the Main Points of Your Essay Create an Effective Closing Sentence

Speech:                                    Persuasive

Topic:                                      Defund Immigrant Detention Camps (ICE).

Organizational Pattern:           Problem-Cause Solution

General Purpose:                     To Persuade

Specific Purpose:                    To persuade my audience to speak up about the injustice of ICE and defund ICE detention camps.

Central Idea:                           This topic is essential because this is a part of America’s current immigration policy and under one of the ICE branches there have been several accounts of maltreatment and negligence reported. This injustice and inhumane behavior should not be condemned in a reputable country like ours. 

Introduction:

1. Attention Grabber/Relate to Audience: Imagine yourself as a 5 year old again. Pigtails, rosy cheeks, a crooked smile, energetic and happy. Unfortunately, that is not the case for those across our borders fleeing from violence, death and poverty.
2. Preview: Today, I hope I can convince everyone to speak up and spread awareness about the unethical procedures of separating families, the poor conditions and abuse endured within the facilities, and discuss the financial burden it is costing America to fund inhumane acts and who is reaping the benefits off of immigrant’s misery.

(Transition: For starters, I would like to explain what ICE is and what it does to families.)

Body: Problem: Family Separation.

1. ICE or Immigration and Custom Enforcement is divided in two branches—Homeland Security Investigations and Enforcement Removal Operations.
   1. Our focus will be primarily on The Enforcement Removal Operations. This branch is specifically designed to identify, detain and deport “removable aliens” that have recently entered the U.S illegally or failed to report proper documentation at the border.
   2. Detainment can occur during the entire process of a migration application, ICE raids or when authorities are unable to establish migration status or identification.
   3. Often during detainment families are separated and scattered amongst the 200 detention facilities—husband and wives, parents from children and siblings are separated.
2. Family Separation Policy
   1. There is no law or policy that states families need to be separated during detainment.
   2. Recently under Trump’s “zero-tolerance policy” Custom Border Patrol (CBP) has forcibly separated about 6,000 immigrant parents/caregivers from their children. With at least 2,500 of those families with children between the ages of 5 and 17. (According to nbcnews.com)
3. Length of Separation
   1. Length of separation varies from every case. Some immigrant adults are deported within 72 hours of being apprehended leaving their children behind. Consequently, children do not stay at processing centers for more than 72 hours—they’re handed over to the U.S Department of Human and Health Services and. Others will be held in detention centers till court hearings and court settlements.
   2. Typically, the parents will be deported and the children as young as 3 years old are left behind to represent their case in front of a judge. Others seeking asylum or able to prove that they do not pose a threat will be held into detention centers until trial dates and court settlements.
   3. The 1997 Flores v. Reno court agreement settled a 20-day limit for holding children in detention centers and issued new policies regarding the treatment of minors in custody. However, under Trump’s immigration policies on average, a minor immigrant spends about 60 days in the detention centers before they are reunited with their parents, deported or placed in a foster home. That is double the average according to 2015 findings that were reported on americanprogress.org.

4. Basis of Detainment/Separation
   1. ACLU reports that separations have been ordered on grounds including a parent’s minor criminal offense—such as a parking violation or DUI.
   2. Minor transgressions, accusations of the family member having gang relations without evidence or authorities believing the biological mom/dad is not related to the child are premises for separation. (according to Efren Olivares Immigration Lawyer and Director of TCRP Racial and Justice Program)
5. Trouble reuniting families/ unable to keep track of the kids.
   1. U.S Department of Health and Human Services and Ohio’s Senator Rob Portman  have confirmed the government does not know the whereabouts of “thousands” of children who were placed in temporary custody before the “zero-tolerance policy”.  And are unable to reunite the families.

(Transition: Unfortunately, the horrors do not stop there. That is just merely the beginning. What happens in these detention facilities is truly barbaric and unforgivable.)

Body: Problem: Conditions/Abuse/Trauma

The abuse and conditions these individuals endure in these facilities are just as heart-wrenching, if not worse, than the separations.

1. Conditions
   1. Lack of basic requirements and sanitation procedures—limited food, clothing, blankets, beds, water and hygienic products.
      1. For example, children at three of the five Border Patrol facilities we visited had no access to showers, despite the TEDS standards requiring that “reasonable efforts” be made to provide showers to children approaching 48 hours in detention. At these facilities, children had limited access to a change of clothes; Border Patrol had few spare clothes and no laundry facilities. While all facilities had infant formula, diapers, baby wipes, and juice and snacks for children, we observed that two facilities had not provided children access.
      2. Attorney and Law Professor Warren Binford has described minor immigrants as “severely malnourished” and kept in “inhumane conditions” at a Texas facility she recently visited. She was also told by authorities that a 2 year old boy did not need a diaper after she found him covered in his own urine.
      3. Immigrants and minors are sleeping on concrete floors in freezing or 100+ degree temperatures with lights on 24/7.
   2. Immigrants are medically neglected.
      1. Multiple outbreaks of infections such as scabies, measles, chicken-pox, mumps, and flu.
         1. Carlos Hernandez Vazquez,a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy, died in a shared cell by the toilet. Where another minor immigrant found him hours later. A nurse at the station where he was being held diagnosed him with influenza A on Sunday, prescribed him Tamiflu and sent him back to his cell with a fever of 103 degrees  instead of admitting him into the hospital.
         1. Reports on the Clint facility in Texas stated that there was a lice outbreak in a cell filled with 25 kids. And authorities gave the children lice shampoo and two combs to share amongst themselves—which is not advised to do during a lice outbreak. One of the combs was lost and the authorities took away the sleeping mats and blankets as punishment—forcing the kids to sleep on the floors.
2. Pregnant Immigrant Detainees have spiked up to 52% from 2018 to 2019—double the amount from previous years.
   1. Between 2017-2018 a total of 28 women had miscarriages in ICE facilities.

(Transition: Despite, acknowledging these morbid pretenses, America continues to financially support and profit off of the expense of immigrant misery.)

Body: Problem: Costs/Finance

1. In 2018, the federal government is set to spend $3.076 billion on DHS Custody Operations, or $8.43 million per day on immigrant detention. Given the 40,520 detention bed quota for FY 2018, this amounts to an average daily cost of $208 per immigrant detainee.

1. Each year, Congress spends billions of dollars to detain a population that includes thousands of people who have no criminal record and pose little danger to the public.
2. Higher overall costs to taxpayers, but if taxpayers reduced this to one third of the bed quota–870 million dollars could be save
3. Companies are profiting off of detention camps, yet the conditions at ICE detention centers do not meet the basic requirements.
   1. For example, MVM is a Virginia-based defense contractor, which received contracts worth up to $248 million to transport immigrant children since 2014, according to a report for Reveal by investigative reporter, Aura Bogado. MVM is the contractor responsible for holding immigrant children overnight in a Phoenix office building where a neighbor saw detained children bathing in bathroom sinks, Bogado reported in 2018.
4. Conclusion:

Summary: As you can see this particular branch of ICE has humiliated and abused many lives under their immigration policy and should no longer be funded or condemned on American soil. I want to remind you all about the brutal facts of family separation, the dehumanizing abuse and conditions immigrants live in at these centers, and the outrageous funds supporting these centers only for it to be ineffective.

Striking Thought/Action: I urge everyone today to continue to speak and spread awareness about the injustices immigrants face on American land. There are many ways to help these individuals, but the most effective thing we can do is shed light on it. The more we talk about this, the more people will be encouraged to find different ways to help. This does not have to end here, change can begin with you!