Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Deportation, it's not just for immigrants anymore
Sure you think you are safe because you are a US citizen. Ha! That isn't good enough if you aren't white enough. Got a funny accent? Got to go. Or maybe ICE is just having a bad hair day and you are the one they need to pick on to get over it. Whatever the reason, the evil minions of ICE are arresting and deporting more US citizens than ever before.
A Minneapolis man was arrested and illegally detained for 43 days by federal immigration agents who sought to have him deported even though he is a U.S. citizen, according to a lawsuit filed recently in federal court in Minneapolis.Nobody can stop them so what do they care. If they nab you that is evidence enough to ship you to another country.
Federal agents arrested Anthony A. Clarke during a late-night raid in 2008 at his sister's house in Columbia Heights, then shuttled him back and forth between a Sherburne County jail and an unidentified detention facility in South Dakota, the suit says.
The case is thought be the first federal suit of its kind in Minnesota, and it appears to follow a national pattern. A recent study at Northwestern University found thousands of cases in which U.S. citizens were arrested in error and held for deportation. Collectively, they raise disturbing questions about the tactics of immigration agents and the adequacy of checks and balances in a parallel court system overseeing the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
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