Letter: Those in immigrant detention centers should be shown dignity and humanity

Regarding Shirley Ann Higuchi’s commentary “For-profit immigrant detention centers are an echo of a sad past.”Many of the rights we expect as citizens in our criminal courts do not extend to immigrants in detention centers who are navigating our civil immigration courts. There is no right to a speedy trial (because of the current backlog in immigration hearings individuals detained in detention centers may remain locked up for years), no right to a court-appointed lawyer and no