Question by GreasyTony: Why are Immigrants Sedated Without Medical Reason?
Is this another case of people being treated like animals? It’s bad enough that they are herded like cattle and beaten like wild animals on the loose. What do you think?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/immigration/cwc_d4p1.html
Immigrants Sedated Without Medical Reason
The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who have been drugged.
In a Chicago holding cell early one evening in February 2006, five guards piled on top of a 49-year-old man who was angry he was going back to Ecuador, according to a nurse’s account in his deportation file. As they pinned him down so the nurse could punch a needle through his coveralls into his right buttock, one officer stood over him menacingly and taunted, “Nighty-night.”
Involuntary chemical restraint of detainees, unless there is a medical justification, is a violation of some international human rights codes. The practice is banned by several countries where, confidential documents make clear, U.S. escorts have been unable to inject deportees with extra doses of drugs during layovers en route to faraway places.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/aug/29/research-finds-fear-illegal-immigrant-crime-unfoun/
Research Finds Fear Of Illegal Immigrant Crime Unfounded
“illegal immigrants actually are less likely than others to commit violent crimes, said researchers who study the issue. In part, they say, that’s because the immigrants don’t want to draw attention to themselves.”
Best answer:
Answer by tnfarmgirl
I guess we know why these folks are being deported – they can’t act like civilized people long enough for the bus ride home.
I don’t like the idea of people being tranquilized like animals but i like the idea of people acting like animals even less.
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