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The kid's probably a terrorist, anyhow (or will be, after this)
March 04, 2007 ( politics )
The Globe and Mail has a story about an Iranian family who lost their refugee plea with Canada and was in the process (after ~3 months of the father's detention and torture in Iran) of smuggling themselves back in to Canada. Their flight got re-routed through the U.S. where their (forged) papers triggered their detention:
“They say we have to pass immigration, and they say because we have Greek passport, you need to get a visa for United States. I said no, our ticket is to Toronto, we have no plan to come here.”After being held in Puerto Rico for five days, the family was brought to Taylor, Tex., about 45 kilometres northeast of Austin, to the main U.S. family detention centre for immigrants.
“My luggage go to Toronto,” said Majid, 42, “and we have to stay here.”
Now, the three of them are locked inside the centre that, U.S. refugee advocates recently alleged, features inadequate medical care, lack of privacy and abusive behaviour by staff toward the green-uniformed detainees.
Posted by griffjon at March 4, 2007 07:52 PM
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