Detention violence was rationalized as reimposition of violated state sovereignty

Evidence

The combination of racial and physical abuse seemed incomprehensible to many detainees, as is much racial terror, but the detention sta√‘s rationale is clear: Detainees have violated some law and, by extension, U.S. sovereignty, which requires a disciplinary apparatus to reimpose that sovereignty through physical, verbal, and psychological abuse; immigrants who have overstayed their visas are violating territorial sovereignty, and those who commit criminal o√enses, even small ones, are violating social conventions of sovereignty that maintain the rule of law. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 816 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: State violence operating outside its own rules constitutes informal sovereignty; Detention officials justify abuse as reimposing sovereignty over lawbreakers — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 816; Sovereign violence is shared by citizens as a right to punish outsiders — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 51 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Detention officials justify abuse as reimposing sovereignty over lawbreakers #corroborates (0.97) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 816