Immigrant Detention

 1) Describe with as much detail as possible, what the detention centers are like (i.e., the bathrooms, medical facilities, cells, solitary confinement, etc.)

Bathrooms
Detention centers are basically like a jail but with less privacy. The bathroom stalls and the shower stalls don't have any doors or curtains. Anyone can walk in and see you naked in the shower or using the bathroom. This can allow people to get sexually assaulted. Many women have reported to being sexually. Even some men have complained about inappropriate comments from the officers.

 Medical Facilities

 There aren't many medical facilities. To get medical help you can either send a medical request form that can take a week or go to something called sick call on Monday-Friday at 6am. But the lines are really long and you even miss breakfast on the line to see the nurse. Once you get to see the nurse she often only gives you tylenol. Some of the prisoners don't trust the staff because they sometimes give the patients the wrong medication or the wrong doses.

Cells
 Its hard to sleep because the guards keep the lights on. When there had been an immigration raid they put squeeze in a third cot which starts fights. They guard go to the cells and force the immigrants to get up and face the wall and put their hands up. When one person asked why they are doing this a guard yelled at the person and when he didn't respond the guard punched the guy in the stomach, them more guards started beating him also. They hit him on the head and tied his arms and legs behind his body. They dragged him out and used his head to open the door. The guy had a black eye and a welt on his head but didn't get treatment until 3 days later.

Solitary Confinement

 This is where they keep the immigrants that get out of line, complain, or they just don't know what to do with. Such as people who suffer from mental illnesses or people with H.I.V. who, need special treatment. these people are refugees who leave their countries and come to america to get away from their tourtered lives.  They get retraumitised and suicidal they get forced to go into solitary confidement. They get stuck in a dirty, small, windowless and cold room. They become even more depressed, nurvous and scared. One guy from Lyberia got phycotic and kep on flipping himself off his bed onto his head saying that he was training himself for the hardships and violence he would have to endour if he ever had to go back to his county. Guards had to enject him with anti-phycotic medication three times a day, to make him compliant.
   

2) How did playing this game make you feel?
  Playing this game make me feel ashamed at my country for making innocent, helpless people go through the difficulty of Immigration Detentions. They didn't do anything wrong and just get locked up because they weren't born in the U.S. These people get treated cruely with little to no respect. They don't even get proper sleeping/living arrangements. They don't get the proper medical treatments. If someone has a 103 degree fever they just give them some tylenol. Also if the people who are running these facilities don't know what to do with some of the detainees or the detainees complain they just lock them up or stableize them by injecting them with anti-phycotic medicine. The Restroom give them no privacy and many women are subjected to sexual assult. Even some males in the Immigration Detentions have complained about the guards making harsh or crude comments. This game almost made me feel ashamed to be apart of the "americans", the monsters to these people.

 3) What do you think the Unites States should do differently with their immigrants?
  I think the americans should only arrest the immigrants if they have done something wrong to have broken the law, and if they do arrest them they should put them in a regular jail call one with a proper medical facility and regular bathrooms. I think the americas should treat the immigrants with more respect, because when it comes down to it were all the same. Also i thnk the americans shouldn't be forcing the immigrants to go back to their country because many have come here to have a better life or get away from the hardships that their country had them face.