Comments on: Menendez, Gillibrand and Kennedy Introduce Bills to Stop Immigrant Detainee Abuse http://washingtonindependent.com/53397/menendez-gillibrand-and-kennedy-introduce-bills-to-stop-immigrant-detainee-abuse National News in Context Mon, 06 May 2013 11:16:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Onegus http://washingtonindependent.com/53397/menendez-gillibrand-and-kennedy-introduce-bills-to-stop-immigrant-detainee-abuse/comment-page-1#comment-64769 Onegus Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:00:10 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=53397#comment-64769 Every time the United States chides China and other countries about Human Rights, one wonders what standard the US uses to distill such statements or where they garner the nerve or authority to say such things. In the last ten years, the US human rights record, especially toward foreigners and immigrants is only comparable the Spanish Inquisition.<br><br>The US immigration system is one of the most dreadful administrative organizations in the civilized world. It is a system that runs free of any regulation, without any legal leashes or censure to protect the subjects who go through it. The 1996 laws requiring deportations of any alien with a criminal record was a major miscarriage of jurisprudence that has caused more damage, suffering and gross violations of human rights than will probably ever be known. Some of the horrendous stories of persons incarcerated for years without legal assistance, shifted around from jail to jail, lost to the world and their family members, uncertain of future or help and without access to a judge or court sounds like Guantanamo all over again. Every time the United States chides China and other countries about Human Rights, one wonders what standard the US uses to distill such statements or where they garner the nerve or authority to say such things. In the last ten years, the US human rights record, especially toward foreigners and immigrants is only comparable the Spanish Inquisition.

The US immigration system is one of the most dreadful administrative organizations in the civilized world. It is a system that runs free of any regulation, without any legal leashes or censure to protect the subjects who go through it. The 1996 laws requiring deportations of any alien with a criminal record was a major miscarriage of jurisprudence that has caused more damage, suffering and gross violations of human rights than will probably ever be known. Some of the horrendous stories of persons incarcerated for years without legal assistance, shifted around from jail to jail, lost to the world and their family members, uncertain of future or help and without access to a judge or court sounds like Guantanamo all over again.

]]> By: MackBL http://washingtonindependent.com/53397/menendez-gillibrand-and-kennedy-introduce-bills-to-stop-immigrant-detainee-abuse/comment-page-1#comment-57043 MackBL Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:06:42 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=53397#comment-57043 The Elitists such as these UNITED STATES Senators are no more concerned about the ILLEGALS than they are of United States Citizens; JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY! Once again the Elitist Politicians from both "major" Political Parties and their Elitist Political Contributors consider United States citizens only as "units of labor" and the sooner we become a Third World Country the better for their "bottom line"! Our Elitist Politicians and their Elitist Political Contributors will not be happy until they transform the United States into a Third World Country for most of our citizens while furnishing the Chamber of Commerce and all their Elitist Special Interest Groups with their supply of "cheap labor". The Elitist Politicians and their Elitist Contributors are "socializing benefits" to the ILLEGALS, camouflaged as welfare for United States Citizens, on the backs of United States citizens through our assets such as the Education System, Social Security, and Health Care not to mention our National Security while "privatizing" the profits for themselves! The Elitists such as these UNITED STATES Senators are no more concerned about the ILLEGALS than they are of United States Citizens; JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY! Once again the Elitist Politicians from both “major” Political Parties and their Elitist Political Contributors consider United States citizens only as “units of labor” and the sooner we become a Third World Country the better for their “bottom line”! Our Elitist Politicians and their Elitist Political Contributors will not be happy until they transform the United States into a Third World Country for most of our citizens while furnishing the Chamber of Commerce and all their Elitist Special Interest Groups with their supply of “cheap labor”. The Elitist Politicians and their Elitist Contributors are “socializing benefits” to the ILLEGALS, camouflaged as welfare for United States Citizens, on the backs of United States citizens through our assets such as the Education System, Social Security, and Health Care not to mention our National Security while “privatizing” the profits for themselves!

]]> By: cliffhammond http://washingtonindependent.com/53397/menendez-gillibrand-and-kennedy-introduce-bills-to-stop-immigrant-detainee-abuse/comment-page-1#comment-56646 cliffhammond Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:33:33 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=53397#comment-56646 The worst of the offenders are private prison contractors whose bottom line is anything but human rights. They purposely milk the system by indefinitely detaining migrant works and providing substandard medical care and nutrition. Their education and substance abuse programs are underfunded, the monies diverted to company coffers. The worst of the offenders are private prison contractors whose bottom line is anything but human rights. They purposely milk the system by indefinitely detaining migrant works and providing substandard medical care and nutrition. Their education and substance abuse programs are underfunded, the monies diverted to company coffers.

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