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Detainees are drugged for deportation
Immigrants Sedated Without Medical Reason
The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who have been drugged.
The government's forced use of antipsychotic drugs, in people who have no history of mental illness, includes dozens of cases in which the "pre-flight cocktail," as a document calls it, had such a potent effect that federal guards needed a wheelchair to move the slumped deportee onto an airplane.
"Unsteady gait. Fell onto tarmac," says a medical note on the deportation of a 38-year-old woman to Costa Rica in late spring 2005. Another detainee was "dragged down the aisle in handcuffs, semi-comatose," according to an airline crew member's written account. Repeatedly, documents describe immigration guards "taking down" a reluctant deportee to be tranquilized before heading to an airport.
Involuntary chemical restraint of detainees, unless there is a medical justification, is a violation of some international human rights codes. The practice is banned by several countries where, confidential documents make clear, U.S. escorts have been unable to inject deportees with extra doses of drugs during layovers en route to faraway places.
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Iowa Immigration raid - largest in U.S. history
So far this is the largest immigration raid ever in the U.S.
390 immigrants were arrested.
By the end of the day, a large number of children were found to be abandoned in school, as their family members were arrested unexpectedly and did not pick them up. So far this is the largest immigration raid ever in the U.S. 390 immigrants were arrested. ... more -
While the U.S. defends interest in the Middle East, poor Haitians next door eat mu...
The American government claims that our interest abroad,Iraq in particular,is for freedom of the Iraqi people. If that is true,how can we watch the on going suffering of the people in Haiti only hundreds of miles from the Florida coast. Worst than that,our government allows immigrants from almost any country except Haiti to seek political asylum in the U.S. Mexicans,Latins from Central America,Cubans, most people from Europe and all over the rest of the planet can come to America,except Haitians. Why is that? What is so bad about Haitian people that the U.S. coast guard will turn their makeshift rafts around in the middle of the oceans deadly currents,knowing that people who are only seeking freedom and a better way of life for themselves and their families,while being turned around will now risk death by either sea or political execution upon their forced return to the small famished,diseased stricken island..
Haiti people are so poor that baking of mud cookies has becomie a staple in the Haitian diet. Bcause it is normal, some people in America think that it is done more in tradition that it is out of necessity. It's mormal because of poverty. Shame on America. Shame on us as a neighboring country to ignore the Haitian people as if they just a bunch of diseased animals just waitig to die. Is love thy neighbor as thyself just a biblical fairytale ?
Would we allow the United States government to ignore this ambarrassing modern day atrocity to take place if Haitians were White and not Black ? I don't think so. We, as a Nation, are just as guilty as all of Europe was, that watched Adolph Hitler annihilate German's Jews.These are crimes against humanity. Some,with Christians with twisted minds,justify turning their backs on the small island south of Florida, by truly thinking that Haiti is really Hades, as in the Biblical place called Hell.
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Bail for Immigrants... A Generous Spirit Gives New Meaning to Philanthropy
Quite an "out-of-the-box" thinking donor.
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A Day With the Minute Men
With immigration such a hot topic, I spent the day with the minute men to see the current status of our southern border. What a day it was! With immigration such a hot topic, I spent the day with the minute men to see the current status of our southern border. What a day it... more
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Can the dream become a reality?
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has until mid-October to pass or veto the "California Dream Act." The bill would allow undocumented students to apply and qualify for tuition breaks for community college and low-income grants. Critics say that the bill would take away much needed financial aid for legal students, while supporters argue that undocumented students shouldn't be held accountable for the actions of their parents. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has until mid-October to pass or veto the "California Dream Act." The bill would allow undocumented studen... more
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Borderline Insanity
As the immigration debate grows more intense, Joe attempts to solve it by talking to experts, going to a club and wasting lots of food. As the immigration debate grows more intense, Joe attempts to solve it by talking to experts, going to a club and wasting lots of food... more
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Immigration Rallies
Thousands of people in cities across the nation march and rally to protest U.S. immigration policy. Demonstrators want a path to citizenship for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, hoping marches will spark Congress to act before the 2008 presidential election. Thousands of people in cities across the nation march and rally to protest U.S. immigration policy. Demonstrators want a path to citi... more
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