Lessons from other states prove that this is only half the battle (for example, European detention firms are making money from the current refugee crisis) and that uncovering the financial and ideological ties that have led to the modern trend of outsourcing asylum seekers to corporations is the far larger and more difficult battle.
Their children sat and watched, before being given awards by Yarl's Wood staff for, for example, feeding the detention centre guinea pig.
Certainly, the poor quality of recordkeeping at ICE (and at the I.N.S. before it) means that even biometric matches can be unreliable, throwing naturalized citizens, for example, into immigration detention simply because their files are not up to date.
For example, the growing detention center industry will continue to take the place of productive workers and damage a healthy economy.
For example, in one detention center I met and reviewed the medical records of a man who had been thriving and holding steady employment for years while on schizophrenia medications.
The opposition was aware of the need to ensure that the government got most of its business done; but if there were measures that the Lords felt went to the heart of our constitutional values – trial by jury and detention without trial, for example – it would hold out against the Commons.
For example, he approves the detention of suspected terrorists in Guantánamo.
In 2013, for example, May supported the detention at Heathrow Airport of David Miranda, the partner of Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who helped to break the Edward Snowden story.
We have the House of Lords to thank for the fact that matters are not vastly worse with our civil liberties – think 42 days' detention, for example – which makes one wonder whether we are still willing to make it a clone of the House of Commons, with party whips rubber-stamping the latter's genius ideas.
We are now witnessing a concentration of power in a political/economic elite that is struggling to assert its legitimacy at the same time as extending its power (through such measures as the proposed extension from 28 days' detention, for example).
