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Sun, 9 Mar 2008 20:21:27 -0400 |
This is a long article, and it oughta break your heart to read what's
being done in the name of Shrub's "war" on terrorim (or
"terriers" as he
wunsta pawna time had it). Wonder how much dough the Corrections
Corporation of America shovels at the Repugnicons every year?
THE LOST CHILDREN
Then, on the last leg of the journey, the family ran into someone else's
bad luck. On February 4, 2007, during a flight from Georgetown, Guyana,
to Toronto, a passenger had a heart attack and died, and the plane was
forced to make an unscheduled stop in Puerto Rico. American immigration
officials there ascertained that the Yourdkhanis' travel documents were
fake. The Yourdkhanis begged to be allowed to continue on to Canada, but
they were told that if they wanted asylum they would have to apply for
it in the United States. They did so, and, five days later, became part
of one of the more peculiar, and contested, recent experiments in
American immigration policy. They were locked inside a former
medium-security prison in a desolate patch of rural Texas: the T. Don
Hutto Residential Center.
Full "New Yorker" story at:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/03/080303fa_fact_talbot
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