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Have a relative or friend who is getting deported from the US? Plan on being in the same position anytime soon? Well, here it is, for the first time, a fully documented and procedural guide to US detention and deportation. Please note that you will NOT find this information anywhere else. Half the practiced procedure during this process is NOT published anywhere under the US Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) or Immigration & Nationality Act (INA). That’s primarily because no one has taken interest in this procedure, and although there are manuals published by the House and Congress on the process of deportation and escorting illegal aliens out of the US, they are NOT followed by the monkeys at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The reason for that is that immigration law and procedure largely deals with people who are not US citizens, so the US government, house, or congress doesn’t give a flying fuck about them. Some of this is in violation of human rights, but who gives a fuck? If you’re not white and don’t hold a blue passport, you don’t deserve to be treated with dignity, do you? After all, America was formed after the murder of brown people wasn’t it? Anyway, think I’m getting off the topic here. Here’s how it works:

How it Begins

The person who homeland security wants to deport is picked up. Please keep in mind that the pick-up is made not by the USCIS or Immigration Services, but by Customs and Border Patrol, or, most likely, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The ICE is equivalent to the right testicle of the US Department of Homeland Security for enforcement of Immigration and related unlawful DHS policy and practice. They basically do the “dirty work” for the immigration fogies. So, if someone you know simply disappears off of the streets of America, or they go to see someone at the local immigration service center, or go for an Infopass appointment (http://infopass.uscis.gov/) and never turn up, guess what, they’ve been arrested. Please note that ICE is present at all Immigration Service Centers for this very reason: the arrest of those people they consider illegal. Whether they are OR not is neither their business nor that of the USCIS. A US court has to decide that, and good luck getting there. Not many people that chance; so America’s advertising about a free country is basically full of shit in this department.

So, how do you find out if someone has been picked up? Visit the local immigration office, and ask them where they hold immigration detainees. You’ll get a couple of printed pages from http://www.mapquest.com directions on them, which will be addresses of the “facilities” or jails that people are taken to when detained. Call them, ask for your party’s name, and you’ll know if they are there or not. Now, you can’t speak to the person who has been arrested. THEY need to call you; then you call back and set up a collect call system that costs you both your arms and a leg, and then the arrested person call you from inside the jail.

So now they’re in, and you’re contacting attorneys, and your friend is trying to extract information from the people who arrested him; what the hell is going on? Read on…

After the Arrest

Now is when the false assurances start. First of, ICE Officers will hardly ever talk to you or an Immigration Attorney. They think you’re the scum of the earth because you’re not white enough for them, and your attorney is equally pathetic because he/she is defending you. So, they will not give you any information. They may, however, give the arrested some false information about when he’ll be deported, but they will never actually tell you when, where, or how, because it’s supposed to be a ‘security risk.’ Yes, the small penis’ of the ICE Officers are at stake; they need to make the most of their petty 2 cents worth lives and they make everything sound like it’s top secret information that could change the course of the earth.

Typically, the ICE can hold a deportee for about 3 months before they’ll need special permission from other authorities to further hold the person, and because that special permission requires paperwork (which the dickheads are too fucking incompetent to do) and may establish that the ICE has ILLEGALLY or UNLAWFULLY arrested someone (this is very common), they will typically deport your arrested friend or relative within those 90 days.

If he/she has a committed a crime, the 90 day period will begin after they have done jail time for their crime. They will then be moved to a federal deportee detention facility. You can find a list of detention facilities and related information here:

http://www.ice.gov/pi/dro/facilities.htm.

If you believe an ICE Officer has arrested you by mistake, there’s really nothing you can about it. If you had a stay issued by a Court, you can file for a contempt of court. Also, you can file a Habeas Corpus with the court to request that the ICE officer be questioned and you be released. However, it seems like the system is rigged; ICE apparently feeds enough money to US Department of Justice (USDOJ) to where they don’t entertain such applications or cannot take action on them within 90 days, and that basically renders them useless. What you can do, however, is file a civil suit and get the media involved. That’s the only thing that scares the US government, and typically, this is more than an ICE Officer can handle, and somewhere somebody will always pay for fucking up. However, this is not something everyone can do as it may require some serious cash and persistence, and a lot of courage. After all, a lot of people unnecessarily tremble in the name of US Homeland Security.

The Deportation Process

This, in itself, is a big mess. There’s no set procedure or way. Typically, here’s the rule: If there’s a direct flight to your country of passport from anywhere in the US, you will be flown on either a US government plane or escorted on a commercial flight to the major international airport that such a flight will fly out of. From this airport, you will be put on a commercial flight ‘home.’ They will hand the passport over to the pilot or airline staff, and they will hand it over to you when you land or are on the plane, unless you’re from a really crooked country where these people are looking to make a quick buck off of you.

Now, according to the guide for escorting, information on which can be found on the USDOJ site at http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/reports/INS/e0105/index.htm, if no one if the deportee in question has not committed a crime, he/she does not need an escort. But somehow it turns out that homeland security has a very hard time complying with this manual or guide, and so, the rule is typically ignored.

Now, I’m not sure if this is how it’s done in other countries too, but I know this is how it works for the Middle East and Pakistan. Most likely, the deportee will be moved to the federal detention facility in Buffalo, NY, from where the ICE charters a plane belonging to any airline, and flies in a 24 hour plus flight to three or four countries, dropping the deportees off. The idea is to hand them over to local authorities, but most local authorities could give a fuck less about what the ICE wants them to do. In fact, there have been reports of ICE and Homeland Security Officers getting into trouble upon arrival in the Pakistan without having an invitation; something to be proud of.

The Return to the Passport Country

Once your deportee lands in Pakistan, he’ll be uncuffed and brought into the airport. The problem here is that the US flight is so secretive, that they don’t even inform the local authorities of the arrival of a deportee plane, with the result that the local authorities are not prepared. The only people who may have a clue about the flight is the air traffic control room staff, and they typically don’t communicate the information with the FIA (in Pakistan) or the FBI equivalent of the country the deportees are landing.

The result: deportees are hung up at the airport for a couple of hours for filling out a survey form after which they are let go. For Pakistan, the flight usually lands in Islamabad. For all other countries, it typically lands in the capital city. The last deportee flight that few from NY and ended in Pakistan flew on Tuesday, March 6, with a stop in Jordan, after which it carried to Islamabad, Pakistan.

Conclusion

What’s the worst part about this process?

- The inhumane treatment of deportees, some of whom may be highly educated officials who are simply put behind bars for making a solid, legitimate case against the USCIS or ICE but have the wrong skin color.

- The lack of information and pathetic secrecy issues.

- The hiding of ICE officers from lawyers and other genuine people for fucking up; talk about being American, don’t face your mistakes or stand up for what you do. Way to go Dick in Bush!

- The lack of implementation of legislature and the cowardice of judiciary in front of ICE.

- Thousands of human rights violations.

- The incompetence of American Citizens in realizing that there are such atrocities going on inside their own country, and

- The fact that no one is willing to do anything about it because the mistreated don’t hold American Passports.

What can we say? What goes around comes around. Stay away and don’t get involved. This is one of the several ways the US is shooting herself in her own foot, and what happens when you do that? You only need to be told if you have never stepped outside the US.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16912619/.

Here’s an article I think you should definitely read. You can either click on the link above or read it here.

By Spencer S. Hsu and Sylvia Moreno

Updated: 5:01 a.m. ET Feb. 2, 2007

RAYMONDVILLE, Tex. - Ringed by barbed wire, a futuristic tent city rises from the Rio Grande Valley in the remote southern tip of Texas, the largest camp in a federal detention system rapidly gearing up to keep pace with Washington’s increasing demand for stronger enforcement of immigration laws.About 2,000 illegal immigrants, part of a record 26,500 held across the United States by federal authorities, will call the 10 giant tents home for weeks, months and perhaps years before they are removed from the United States and sent back to their home countries.

The $65 million tent city, built hastily last summer between a federal prison and a county jail, marks both the success and the limits of the government’s new policy of holding captured non-Mexicans until they are sent home. Previously, most such detainees were released into the United States before hearings, and a majority simply disappeared.

The new policy has led to a dramatic decline in border crossings by non-Mexicans, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.But civil liberties and immigration law groups allege that out of sight, the system is bursting at the seams. In the Texas facility, they say, illegal immigrants are confined 23 hours a day in windowless tents made of a Kevlar-like material, often with insufficient food, clothing, medical care and access to telephones. Many are transferred from the East Coast, 1,500 miles from relatives and lawyers, virtually cutting off access to counsel.

“I call it ‘Ritmo’ — like Gitmo, but it’s in Raymondville,” said Jodi Goodwin, an immigration lawyer from nearby Harlingen.An inspector general’s report last month on a sampling of five U.S. immigration detention facilities found inhumane and unsafe conditions, including inadequate health care, the presence of vermin, limited access to clean underwear and undercooked poultry. Although ICE standards require that immigrants have access to phones and pro bono law offices, investigators found phones missing, not working or connected to non-working numbers.

With roughly 1.6 million illegal immigrants in some stage of immigration proceedings, ICE holds more inmates a night than Clarion hotels have guests, operates nearly as many vehicles as Greyhound has buses and flies more people each day than do many small U.S. airlines.Gary Mead, assistant director of ICE detention and removal operations, said the agency is proud of its record, calling Raymondville “a modern, clean facility” that meets federal standards — “which we believe are among the highest you’ll find anywhere.” Mead added: “We think the conditions of confinement there are both humane and consistent with all the rights they should be entitled to.”

Despite its spartan conditions, the facility in Willacy County, 260 miles south of Austin, is a key to President Bush’s drive to create a channel for temporary foreign workers and a path toward legalization for as many as 12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States.To do so, the government must convince skeptics that it can credibly enforce laws aimed at illegal immigrants and their employers, and can hold and deport those caught by the U.S. Border Patrol. At the same time, the administration and its allies argue that even additional detention beds will be overwhelmed without new channels for legal immigration.

Building campaign
Accordingly, the United States has embarked on a huge prison building and contracting campaign, increasing the number of illegal immigrants detained from 19,718 a day in 2005 to about 26,500 now, and a projected 32,000 this summer.About 80 percent of ICE’s beds are rented at 300 local and state jails nationwide, concentrated in the South and Southwest, or at eight sites run by contractors such as the Corrections Corporation of America and Geo Group Inc., in places such as Houston, San Diego and Aurora, Colo.

ICE recently added a 1,524-bed facility in Stewart County, Ga., and a 512-bed center in Taylor, Tex., for immigrant families, both run by Corrections Corp.With the new beds, the administration has imprisoned and deported virtually 100 percent of non-Mexicans caught since August, under faster proceedings that deny hearings to all but asylum seekers.

The administration says this has deterred many others. After quadrupling over four years, the number of non-Mexicans apprehended fell 35 percent in 2006, to 108,026.But immigration experts and U.S. authorities say the impact of the prison boom will be hard to sustain and still is absorbing only a drop in the bucket of illegal immigration. The Border Patrol made 1.1 million apprehensions last year — mostly Mexicans who were promptly returned across the border — but estimates 500,000 people evaded capture or entered legally and then overstayed visas.

An additional 630,000 are at large, ignoring deportation orders, and 300,000 more who entered state and local prisons for committing crimes are to be deported but will probably slip through the cracks after completing their sentences.U.S. authorities acknowledge that gains from the latest crackdown will be fleeting without the major changes the president wants.

“The short answer is, it is not sustainable,” Mead said. “There comes a point where we can’t detain any more people. Hopefully, prior to getting there, the deterrence factor will kick in.”The increased tempo of operations is a strain. ICE has no modern nationwide system to track its facilities’ populations. It relies on an antiquated computer system created in 1984.

Growing pains
Every day since July, six officers have manually tracked and transferred detained immigrants among 24 regional offices, matching bodies to vacant beds and airplane seats in a Detention Operations Coordination Center, Mead said. “We have all of the information,” he said. “It’s a question of automation.”Legal advocates contend that some of the older facilities where immigrants are housed are in deplorable condition and that growing pains afflict even new facilities.

Under fire in Taylor, for example, ICE has expanded hours of daily schooling for children from one to seven hours to meet Texas guidelines.In Willacy County, one of the country’s poorest, ICE has set up 10 huge tents on concrete pads, surrounded by 14-foot-high chain-link fences looped with barbed wire. Each “sprung structure” holds about 200 men or women, divided into four “pods.” Similar temporary buildings were used for troop recreational facilities in Iraq.

The center is part of a chain of facilities in South Texas with 6,700 new immigration detention beds. At a cost of $78 a night per bed (compared with an ICE average of $95 a bed), the Willacy facility is not only cheaper than any bricks-and-mortar prison but also faster to construct, move or dismantle, Mead said.Detainees are subject to penal system practices, such as group punishment for disciplinary infractions. The tents are windowless and the walls are blank, and no partitions or doors separate the five toilets, five sinks, five shower heads and eating areas. Lacking utensils on some days, detainees eat with their hands.

Because lights are on around the clock, a visitor finds many occupants buried in their blankets throughout the day. The stillness and torpor of the pod’s communal room, where 50 to 60 people dwell, are noticeable.Goodwin described a group of women who huddled in a recreation yard on a recent 40-degree day with a 25-mph wind. “They had no blanket, no sweat shirt, no jacket,” she said. “Officers were wearing earmuffs, and detainees were outside for an hour with short-sleeved polyester uniforms and shower shoes and not necessarily socks.”

Perhaps more troubling, lawyers said, large numbers of immigrants have been transferred from Boston, New York, New Jersey and Florida, far from their families and lawyers. Because some immigration judges do not permit hearings by teleconference, detainees are essentially deprived of counsel.Immigration violators in the United States are held on civil grounds and have no right to appointed lawyers. But federal guidelines call for providing them law libraries, telephones and phone numbers for legal aid.

Lawsuit challenges conditions
Joining a lawsuit last week, the American Civil Liberties Union alleged that severe overcrowding at a Corrections Corp. facility in San Diego poses an unconstitutional risk to detainees’ health and safety, arguing that as administrative detainees, illegal immigrants should be treated better than convicted criminals.The National Lawyers Guild and five other groups petitioned the Department of Homeland Security last month to set binding regulations for detention sites, saying U.S. standards set in 2000 are not enforceable.And the New Jersey Civil Rights Defense Committee has announced a campaign to stop ICE’s use of county jails.“The standards are there,” said David A. Martin, a former general counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, ICE’s predecessor agency, who advocates concentrating detention centers in perhaps 10 cities to ensure access to lawyers and oversight. “But there are some real indicators federal standards are not well monitored or policed. We ought to do better.”

© 2007 The Washington Post Company

Kudos to Spencer S. Hsu and Sylvia Moreno on having the guts criticize homeland securitys’s so-called efforts.
But how come no one ever talks about the all the legal immigrants held up in such detention facilities illegally? What, Americans are so scared they’re afraid to bring up the fact that their own government is full of preppy wanna be cool racist pigs who are in fact jailing legal immigrants in order to portray an image of better border patrol and homeland security?

Please, if you’re American enough to investigate anything like that further, whether you are Spencer Hsu or Sylvia Moreno or any other reporter, get in touch. My contact info is at the top of this page.

Oh, and if you need more information, just visit the Immigration Service Center on 8101 N Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, TX. Ask for a Philip Martinez. He’ll be sure to tell you how much of a prissy little twat he feels in the large bureaucracy of the US Department of Homeland Security, and how to make himself feel better in his worthless insult of a life he arrests legal immigrants who come to the office to attend their appointments.

Well my American friends, welcome to my side of the fence.

You’ll now see what I talked about. When some guy with a double digit IQ asks you for information that is there on the passport, and when he won’t have read the published procedure you may have read, it does get pretty irritating. I mean, do you know how dumb you’ve got to be to ask me what my name is when it’s right there on the passport in front of you? Welcome to America….very inhospitable at the door, but home once you’re through.