Philzone.org Discussion Board: Archive 2004: Politics Archive 2004: NPR Story Today About Treatment of Detained Illegal Aliens

NPR had a very long story about how immigration detainees are treated - several stories about green card holders who were detained after 9/11 because they'd had previous minor convictions (pot possession, jumping a subway turnstile) - they were brought to Passaic County Jail in NJ and held without reason or chance for trial for 2 years and basically held in Medieval conditions - beaten, harassed, repeatedly threatened and attacked by dogs. Even the prison's own records basically admit to many of the incidents. And Homeland Security basically says "yeah prison is a bad place". Note most of these people are not Muslim - many from S America, Africa, etc.

Hearing this story truly made me more ashamed to be an American than at any other point in my life - truly depressing . . .

There are six basic criminal grounds for inadmissibility:

Crimes involving moral turpitude,
Violations of controlled substance laws, Conviction of more than one offense,
Drug trafficking,
Prostitution and commercialized vice, and

Commission of a serious crime in the US for which the immigrant asserted immunity from prosecution.

I'm not ashamed to be an American.

that must suck.