Tournament: UNLV | Round: 1 | Opponent: Trinity VY | Judge: Ashley Morgan
Contention 1: The Status Quo
First, the USFG’s alarming push for prison privatization has now extended over into immigration policy as a tool to be used for the continued criminalization and creation of immigrant detention centers.
Ackerman and Furman 13 (Alissa, Ph.D., Criminology and Deviance, The City University of New York (CUNY), Rich, Ph.D., Social Welfare, Yeshiva University. “The criminalization of immigration and the privatization of the immigration detention: implications for justice”, Contemporary Justice Review, 16(2), 2013)IAA
Over the past several decades, the prison industrial complex has expanded to include undocumented
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the American border to the free ?ow of labor (Sassen, 2002).
And, this perpetuation of immigrant criminalization and detainment is protected by Federal Laws put in place by the USFG in order to justify the rapid expansion of incarceration/prolonged detention of immigrants and the maintainance of border logic.
Ackerman and Furman 13 (Alissa, Ph.D., Criminology and Deviance, The City University of New York (CUNY), Rich, Ph.D., Social Welfare, Yeshiva University. “The criminalization of immigration and the privatization of the immigration detention: implications for justice”, Contemporary Justice Review, 16(2), 2013)IAA
Historically, the federal government has been viewed as responsible for the main- tenance
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immigration detention centers, which are proliferating to meet the increase in demand.

Contention 2: The Borderlands
First, immigrant detainment centers create borderlands through the reduction of detainees to policed bodies in service of maintaining borderlands.
Dudziak and Volpp 5 (Mary L. Dudziak is the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History, and Political Science at the USC, and a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School. Leti Volpp professor of law -UC Berkeley) American Quarterly (57.3 593-610)IAA
The shackled foot on the back cover of this volume, belonging to a woman
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, as it "binds us as a nation in a multiracial hierarchy."
This is the very manifestation of legalized borderlands (created by American Border Policy) which make the worst forms of violence and oppression possible in the name of “American” ideals.
Dudziak and Volpp 5 (Mary L. Dudziak is the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History, and Political Science at the USC, and a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School. Leti Volpp professor of law -UC Berkeley) American Quarterly (57.3 593-610)IAA
Legal borderlands can be understood as physical zones where, as Andrew Hebard writes,
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America itself and its commitment to the rule of law and individual rights.
We’ll control the impact on multiple levels—
First, In gross violation of democratic and human rights, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency routinely tortures and detains tens of thousands of immigrants indefinitely every year.
Williamson in 2013¶ (Niles, “US authorities detain immigrants in solitary confinement”, World Socialist Web Site, https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/03/27/iced-m27.html, rcheek)
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), in gross violation of
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utilized by the federal government to pressure immigrants into voluntarily signing deportation papers.
Second, people living within the borderland become unintelligible and disposable, effectively allowing any and all atrocity to be committed towards them.
Hames-Garcia, ’00 (Michael, Department Head and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Education, “How to Tell a Mestizo from an Enchirito: Colonialism and National Culture in the Borderlands,” Diacritics, Volume: 30(4), p. 119. )IAA
In closing, I want to offer an answer to the question my title asks
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harm and is future-oriented, anticipating liberating possibilities in a nonindividualized manner
And, bounding nation-states through the enclosure of borders is the control of territory through violence. This production of the space of the state obfuscates always on-going non-state violence and legitimates wars and genocides in the name of state-making.
Neocleous 3 (Mark Neocleous is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Brunel University, “Off the Map: On Violence and Cartography”, European Journal of Social Theory 2003 6: 409)
Thus in the modern state system the overlapping frontier is as anathema as the idea
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) state’s violence. Alternately, they are simply ‘off the map’.
This construction of civilization around state borders is a colonial artifact. It undergirds the justification for the government’s intervention into Mexico to stabilize, develop and extract resources from the barbaric other.
Slater, 4
Slater, Professor of Social and Political Geography at Loughborough University, in ‘4 David, Geopolitics and the Post-colonial Rethinking North–South Relations
The interweavings of geopolitical power, knowledge and subordinating¶ representations of the other have
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political processes it is possible to highlight a number of different¶ tendencies.
Therefore we affirm Mestiza Consciousness as a method of resistance to status quo indefinite detention policies.
The mestiza consciousness is the only way to solve – it breaks down current modes of thought and creates the conditions necessary for a value system of harmony while also making a move for collective consciousness.
Pérez 5 (Emma, Assoc. Prof. of history at the University of Texas, El Paso, NWSA Journal 17.2 (2005) 1-10)
Decades ago Gloria Anzaldúa comprehended what many of us spend our lives attempting to grasp
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, the crossbreeding of cultures occurs, for Gloria, in the borderlands.
Our role of the ballot is that whoever best creates a new form of ethical-political praxis should win the debate – you should view your ballot through the framing of those who live within the borderlands and frame your decision as a critical interrogator of border politics.
Vaughn-Williams 9 (Nick, IR MA @ university of Warwick IR PhD @ Aberystwyth, “Border Politics: The Limits of Sovereign Power” pg 166-70)
This is no easy task because many of the theories, categories and (p
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what is enabled by, and who benefits from, diverse border politics.
The 1AC advocacy is a prior step – a conscious understanding of the USFG and the private industries relationship holistically is the only internal link to actually solving.
Ackerman and Furman 13 (Alissa, Ph.D., Criminology and Deviance, The City University of New York (CUNY), Rich, Ph.D., Social Welfare, Yeshiva University. “The criminalization of immigration and the privatization of the immigration detention: implications for justice”, Contemporary Justice Review, 16(2), 2013)IAA
The relationship between the private prison industry and the government, at both the state
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generate revenue, the next domain to increase market shares is immigrant detention.
Their framework will inevitably reproduce the same types of atrocities inherent in the USFG’s indefinite detention policies, our analysis is key.
Hernandez 11 (Nicole M. Guidotti- Hernandez, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, 2011, Unspeakable Violence, p. 4.)IAA
The materials I work with convey a sense of immediacy about dealings¶ with dissident
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violence as a response to that insurgency and function to silence that violence.