Hundreds Of Detainees Are Drugged For Deportation »
Posted By Aidenag 5 months ago in NewsThe 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.
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Teagen5 months ago
I've had to fly from Mexico as an officer in charge of a prisoner. He was facing capitol charges and gave the MP's problems. In the end we did have to sedate him against his will. He's serving several life term at Leavenworth. Sometimes sedation may be the only option for some people. I disagree if there's no reason but if the person is being deported against his or her will and might be a danger, then it's safer to do that.
I'm kind of questioning the reporting. They claims it was given to many people with no history of violence. To fly medical personal, security and the deportees, that's a whole lot of money. I don't fully buy this. Then again, this is a government operation so you never know.
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Beau78904 months, 4 weeks ago
Since Congress usually exempts itself from restrictions it puts on other workplaces, it's really only a short ethical step to making exceptions for other government agencies and branches. The Supreme Court usually rationalizes such obvious BS for the power elites.
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BB644 months, 4 weeks ago
Walden I agree with your sentiment, if the claims in the article if they're true. However, the Washington Compost isn't known for objective or fair reporting. They've had problems with fictional stories or more accurately, creative writing. I'd really like to see all of the evidence, be it reports, records and the like. They claim they're flying prisoners, being deported with medical escorts. There has to be more to this story we're not seeing. If not, if there's not good reason to waste our more taxpayer money and risk the prisoner's lives with this stuff, then I'm with you all the way. But I'd like to see more information.
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NoSpinDave4 months, 4 weeks ago
"What have we become?"
A nation of idiots who believes anything that the liberal media feeds them?
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walden34 months, 4 weeks ago
NSD-
I had to read your comment about five times and then I went back and read the story again. What do you dispute? Are you saying that the government isn't administering drugs? After reading the story again I think that you are barking up the wrong tree. The evidence seems pretty compelling.
"according to medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who have been drugged..."
"medical note..."
"according to an airline crew member's written account
nurse's account in his deportation file..."
"The few times officials have spoken of the practice, they have understated it, portraying sedation as rare and "an act of last resort."
"Hundreds of logs for the past five years, obtained by The Post..."
"Internal government records show..."
"they internally circulated a new policy..."
"The log says..."
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hdthehn4 months, 4 weeks ago
Ok Nospin-
You have me convinced with your eloquent response. I now believe everything that the conservative media you worship feeds me.
Thanks for straightening me out on this matter. I am humbled by your brilliance. I'm so not worthy, I'm so not worthy, I'm so not worthy, I'm so not worthy, I'm so not worthy, I'm so not worthy,â;¦..
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disraeli4 months, 4 weeks ago
Davey,
I must confess that I agree with you, in part anyhow. Unfortunately the first four words of your comment seem to have the ring of truth to them.
Idiots in charge and idiots who let them be in charge. Overall the nation must have a slight majority of idiots.
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normallysilent5 months ago
"Repeatedly, documents describe immigration guards "taking down" a reluctant deportee to be tranquilized before heading to an airport."
That means they could be a hazard to the other passengers.
Deportation; Expulsion of an undesirable alien from a country.
That means even if you start throwing a fit.
You can walk, or you can be carried, the botton line is
See ya
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Beeboppin715 months ago
Who determines which "aliens are undesirable"? Does the schmo in charge if ICE have that job or do our courts? I'm not against deportation. I am against breaking the law to do so.
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Teagen4 months, 4 weeks ago
There's a clearly defined set of laws concerning entry into the United States. Part of our problem is the 14th Amendment and what's called Anchor Babies. Even if you break ever law to enter the USA, drop a baby on this side of the line, and it's an American citizen. The law needs to be changed.
As to undesirable, anyone crossing illegally without proper papers should be shipped out ASAP. We need to stop paying for all health care, housing, schools, food stamps, welfare and the rest of the social services. Also, if you hire an illegal alien, you go to jail too. We take your business or send your board of directors to jail. Make it so difficult they go home for lack of jobs.
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hamy5 months ago
And giving someone potentially harmful drugs against their will BEFORE they even go to the airport is OK with you? What if your mother was being deported and she was drugged and died on the flight from complications from that drug? How would you feel about this practice then? Are doctors giving these tranquilizers? Most likely not.
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MajJohn5 months ago
If you were a guard of someone reluctant to go home and that person had a violent history, even if he says, "I'll behave now". would it be prudent to insure we did not have to deal w/ someone who was out of control while in an aircraft? And why the sudden indignation? This has been going on under all the previous administrations and to my own knowledge since as far back as Nixon. We know the answer to that, there are those w/ agendas who wear blinders to anything that happened under Carter or Clinton. Are there abuses? Sure, in all things there are but to analyze something and only be selective in what you look at is disingenuous at best. That's why we have an over abundance of lawyers I guess. Ask not, "what have we become", rather ask, "what are we" and then you'll understand why we are viewed as we are in some corners of the world.
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Beeboppin715 months ago
MajJohn - "If you were a guard of someone reluctant to go home and that person had a violent history, even if he says, "I'll
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