U.S. moves inmates without notice-attorneys stymied in efforts to find clients

[babylonsister]

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/10/21/us_moves_inmates_without_notice/8199/

U.S. moves inmates without notice

Published: 21, 2007 at 9:52 AM

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. Immigration officials were under fire Sunday for moving detainees from a California immigration detention center to other states without warning.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency did not release the number of detainees moved, nor did it release their whereabouts, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The American Civil Liberties Union said more than 100 detainees were moved Saturday from the Terminal Island facility to various facilities in the southern United States.

Their attorneys -- caught by surprise -- were stymied in their efforts to find their clients.

ACLU attorney Ahilan Arulanantham called the move "a serious injustice by the government" and predicted many trial delays will result.

Arulanantham said dozens of his clients -- locked up while fighting deportation -- were among the missing.

"I don't know where they are," he told the Times. "I have to hope that they will call sometime. It's a nightmare."

[MadMaddie]

1. Blackwater prisons? Being abused.....? How did this happen to

America?

We are treating these people as if they are terrorists. They are not terrorist.

This is very bad.

The next step is to have American prisoners move to undisclosed locations so their families and lawyers can't find them.

[EFerrari]

3. And inevitably, we will find out that some of them are citizens.

We're really, really on our own.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

2. These are "our tax dollars at work".

One could surmise there might be agendas at play not coinciding with the values we expected from our government officials...

[robinlynne]

4. on the same day that there is an op about how it is extremely difficult

to get a visa to come here. Add the no-fly lists and the wiretapping. It is getting scary.

[seafan]

5. Homeland Security's ENDGAME: Office of Detention and Strategic Removal Plan

U.S. moves inmates without notice, October 21, 2007

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. Immigration officials were under fire Sunday for moving detainees from a California immigration detention center to other states without warning.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency did not release the number of detainees moved, nor did it release their whereabouts, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The American Civil Liberties Union said more than 100 detainees were moved Saturday from the Terminal Island facility to various facilities in the southern United States.

Their attorneys -- caught by surprise -- were stymied in their efforts to find their clients.

ACLU attorney Ahilan Arulanantham called the move "a serious injustice by the government" and predicted many trial delays will result.

Arulanantham said dozens of his clients -- locked up while fighting deportation -- were among the missing.

.....

Could be that it's part of Chertoff's ENDGAME...


This document will send chills up your spine.

ENDGAME: Office of Detention and Strategic Removal Plan

"Detention and Removal Strategy for a Secure Homeland"
2003-2012


From page 2 of the 49-page document by Department of Homeland Security:


"....As the title implies, DRO provides the endgame to immigration and enforcement and that is the removal of all removable aliens. ....."

[babylonsister]

6. Immigrants today, citizens tomorrow? This is not good. nt

[flashl]

7. GEO is opening an immigration detention center in Jena Louisiana.

GEO previously operated a Juvenile Corrections Center in Jena that was closed by the Federal government.

Texas just closed GEO operated Youth Camps.

If those immigrants disappears in LA and reappears in the GEO immigration detention facility in Jena the injustice is just beginning.

[Solly Mack]

8. people just disappear into the void

while others sing God Bless America...

[HCE SuiGeneris]

10. holy crap

your statement says it all... divide and conquer has been a very useful strategy

[Solly Mack]

12. Yeah...it scares me too

[SeattleGirl]

9. Is there any law, any procedure, anything these assholes won't

violate?

All this shit going on, and Pelosi doesn't see anything concrete to impeach Bush and Cheney over?

All these violations, and our congress is condemning something that happened with the Ottoman Empire?

What about here?

What about now?

These fuckers are just going to keep getting away with it.

:nuke: :grr: :nuke: :grr: :nuke: :grr: :nuke:

[Raksha]

11. This is some very scary shit. n/t