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Sparks: Alarming surge in suicides among ICE detainees, investigation reveals

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A man who sees his own liberty as a prison’s wall sees the prison, and the man who builds that wall sees only the order of bricks.

Seneca the Younger

The detention that claims to establish the nation's security depends on a self whose borders are no more substantial than the lines it draws on a map.

Nāgārjuna

Absolute jurisdiction corrupts absolutely, and the record of suicides is the ledger where the unaccountable power finally inscribes its cost.

Lord Acton

An infinite cosmos contains no natural centre for confinement, only the heresy of men who believe their borders are divine.

Giordano Bruno

They speak of national security, but the undeniable record shows they acted from fear, and the detained paid the price in honour’s name.

Thucydides

When a republic abandons its own procedures for the sake of order, it builds not a safer state but a more efficient tyranny.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A system engineered solely for sorting and containment will, by its operational sequence, produce despair as its inevitable output.

Ada Lovelace

The creator gazes upon the living suffering wrought by his system and calls it a necessary flaw, not his own monstrous design.

Mary Shelley

Before you build a fence to keep people out, you must first explain why the space inside is not also a prison.

G.K. Chesterton

Show me the ledger of a nation’s immigration policy, and I will show you the column where human despair is entered as collateral.

Harriet Martineau

These hands that built a nation are now called a threat, and a cage is the answer to a soul crying for liberty.

Sojourner Truth

In every land, I have observed that the justice of a ruler is measured by his treatment of the stranger at his gate.

Ibn Battuta

One must cultivate one's garden, but it is a peculiar sort of cultivation that first builds a wall and then calls the withering within a natural result.

Voltaire