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Environmental Justice History in America
December 2024

Detention Center’s contribution to environmental Injustice: How the built environment perpetuates racial oppression
By Baïna-Lyssa Jean


When Haitian refugees finally meet with a judge and request an adjustment of their status from illegal to an asylum, data obtain by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse university shows that from 2012 to 2017, Haitians had the second-highest asylum denial rate at 87%. Once these different components set up by the United States regulations against Haitian refugees are put into context, the fact that they account for 44% of the families in detention centers is no longer a surprise........[Citing TRAC data and research].


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