Detainees Quotes

“The desert is an unpredictable place. One day you're sweating, the next you're freezing. One moment the air is damp and cloudy like when the tide is coming in, the next the entire world is orange and dusty. The desert must be a woman.”
― Dianna Skowera, Of Those So Close Beside Me

“It was William Penn who said, “Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.” Brent knew that there was nothing right about this place and the way the prisoners were treated, and he was determined to do whatever he could to change that.”
― Kenneth G. Eade, A Patriot's Act

“Immigration detainees are the ghosts of real prisoners, being punished in advance for crimes that will demand a life sentence.”
― Jan Golembiewski, Magic

“They found out that the other immigration detainees had been incarcerated for days, weeks, and sometimes months. This discovery was not comforting.”
― Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America

“At least if she had committed a crime, she would have stood in front of a judge and answered the charge against her. If convicted, she would have been properly sentenced, and then she would know exactly how long she was to be here. But as a detainee she had no idea when she would be let out.”
― Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America