Dissenting Statement of Commissioner Gail Heriot in the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights' Report, 'with Liberty and Justice for All: The State of Civil Rights at Immigration Detention Facilities'

Abstract

In September of 2015, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights published a report entitled With Liberty and Justice for All: The State of Civil Rights at Immigration Detention Facilities. This Dissenting Statement was part of that report, but was authored solely by Commission Gail Heriot (also a professor of law at the University of San Diego). In it, Commissioner Heriot discusses how the Commission pre-judged the issue of immigration detention facilities. She also discusses the Commission’s sloppy fact-finding, the Commission's bias against privately-run detention centers and the need for the Commission to undertake more modest research projects in the future.