Persuasive Speech On Family Detention

I am writing today because myself along with many others are troubled by the Homeland Security’s detention centers for mothers and children. These centers are jail-like facilities and not a place to hold minors and women. Since last summer, the U.S. government has increased the detention of mothers and children by more than 4,000 percent. Nearly all of these women and children are fleeing uncontrolled violence and persecution in their home countries. Instead of providing them with the protection they need, these families are kept in isolated facilities with extremely limited access to an attorney and in conditions of imprisonment that can traumatize survivors of violence, especially children. I believe your department has heard many concerns on this issue but hasn’t fully grasped the serious harm that is being caused to these families.

Family detention is inhumane, expensive, and hurts this country’s long history of hope for people seeking safety. Children and their parents should be treated as humans and should be able to access protection when they arrive at U.S. borders, but are instead detained in prison-like conditions, even after their claims for seeking asylum are validated.There are many other options other than detention centers that are more humane, cost efficient, and that will keep families together. There is a deep concern that the detention of young children, especially those who have already experienced trauma, this is harmful to their mental and physical development. I believe that the only solution is to put an end to these family detention