Community | December 28, 2009 | 26 comments

"We Can Make Him Disappear": Immigration Officials Are Holding People In Secret, Unmarked Jails

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"If you don't have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he's illegal, we can make him disappear." Those chilling words were spoken by James Pendergraph, then executive director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Office of State and Local Coordination, at a conference of police and sheriffs in August 2008.

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Pendergraph knew that ICE could disappear people, because he knew that in addition to the publicly listed field offices and detention sites, ICE is also confining people in 186 unlisted and unmarked subfield offices, many in suburban office parks or commercial spaces revealing no information about their ICE tenants -- nary a sign, a marked car or even a US flag. (Presumably there is a flag at the Veterans Affairs Complex in Castle Point, New York, but no one would associate it with the Criminal Alien Program ICE is running out of Building 7.) Designed for confining individuals in transit, with no beds or showers, subfield offices are not subject to ICE Detention Standards.

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26 comments // "We Can Make Him Disappear": Immigration Officials Are Holding People In Secret, Unmarked Jails

  • asherp
  • regjoeschmo
    • 0
      regjoeschmo  
    • I think there is a common misconception that America had always had an "open-doors policy" when it came to immigration. We are taught very limited and propagandist information about the happenings of Ellis Island, and many are amazed to realize that people were sent back for coughing or limping while in line to "get in". Prejudice was rampant regardless of race because any large influx of immigrants will put a damper on the local economy as it increases the amount of people looking for work and gives the employers more options........ Yes America was the "melting pot", but to say the transitions involved were all peaceful is to ignore the reality......

    • 2 years ago
  • jubal
  • vesher
  • dalistuff
    • 0
      dalistuff  
    • Can't shoot them cuz we'll need someone to bury them not cost effective. If we send them back to their U.S. funded dictatorship, they'll prob. return anyway. Hmm. this one is a difficult one. Let's ask Sara P. She'll have 2 yrs. to think about it.
      We're screwed anyway... 2012 Kabooooooom!!!

    • 2 years ago
  • tommic
  • bailey78
  • bailey78
  • MotherForTruth
    • 0
      MotherForTruth  
    • The scary part is that much of the public still believes that government officials and judicial system must have a good reason for these actions. Frightened and demoralized people are controlled.

    • 2 years ago
  • jubal
  • courage
    • 0
      courage  
    • good they should shoot them or atleast ship them back to there own crappy little dictatorships better than letting them vote for traitor commie democrats

    • 2 years ago
  • littleredmachine
  • treewolf39
    • 0
      treewolf39  
    • If someone wants to fix the illegal immigration problem, they only need to go after the employers. What the US government is doing now is a huge human rights violation. The need to eat and feed your family knows no borders. The laws that are in place now encourage the hiring of cheap labor because there are little or no penalty's for the employer. I do not believe this problem can be fixed in the current political climate.

    • 2 years ago
  • bhumikag
  • littleredmachine
    • 0
      littleredmachine  
    • bhumikag:

      Agreed. The US immigration system is broken and desperately needs to be fixed. Unfortunately the anti-immigration sentiment held by much of this country is not going to make a sensible solution any easier to introduce or implement.

    • 2 years ago
  • phukitol
  • keithponder
  • trut
    • 0
      trut  
    • phukitol:

      I agree phukitol, if they can't prove they should be here send them all back. This nation isn't the same place as it was 200 or 100 or 50 or even 20 years ago. Too many workers drives down the cost of labor, its that simple.

    • 2 years ago
  • regjoeschmo
  • jubal
  • JosephJinx
    • 0
      JosephJinx  
    • Wow. I'm speechless. How is this not featured? This is incredible! I would imagine this type of information gets leaked only every so often without some serious money exchanging hands or lives lost... doesn't this compromise the entire structure of ICE? I mean, arrests? Charges? What?

      I understand that illegal immigration is a big problem right now, but this is NOT the way to deal with it. This is pretty frightening.

    • 2 years ago
  • tommic
    • 0
      tommic  
    • Thanks to the Patriot Act that stole away the rights of individuals, the United States does do this. To be Patriotic is to be willing to die at the hands of a would be terrorist instead of giving up our rights as granted by the Bill Of Rights and the Constitution. Those who would surrender freedom for security deserve neither. Benjamin Franklin.
      Fear used against us to promote intolorence and war.

    • 2 years ago
  • 2hellnwait
  • Progresshiv
    • 0
      Progresshiv  
    • True change starts at the neighborhood level, and too many Americans are happy being corrupt for the change to have percolated to the top yet.

    • 2 years ago
  • Incredulous
    • 0
      Incredulous  
    • not the change and opportunity people voted for....continues to make me ashamed of this country, and hiding what we are doing, as opposed to flaunting it, is NOT change.

    • 2 years ago
  • jubal
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