Laura Flanders: Immigrant Deaths Covered Up

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from The Nation:



Immigrant Deaths Covered Up
posted by Laura Flanders on 01/12/2010 @ 10:31am


Monday, January 11, marks eight years since the Bush administration transferred the first prisoners to the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay. Ever since, human rights groups have pushed for the closure of Guantánamo and they're pushing harder now for the Obama administration to implement its plans to transfer or release detainees and shut the place.

Close Guantánamo and we'll restore the rule of law and American standing in the world, some human rights advocates say. Unfortunately, it won't be that easy. Prolonged detention in criminal conditions is not only happening in Gitmo. It's happening in our immigration system.

In a series of investigations, New York Times reporter Nina Bernstein has been digging for facts since she broke a story back in April about a Pakistani man who died in immigration detention and then vanished from DHS's records.

Watch: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/515798/immigrant_deaths_covered_up


There have been, it turns out, at least 107 deaths in detention since the creation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency in late 2003. And now new FOIA documents reveal widespread wrongdoing and extensive cover-ups. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/515798/immigrant_deaths_covered_up