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ACLU Suit Says Two Illegal Aliens Were Drugged

From an outraged Washington Post:

ACLU Suit Alleges Deportees Were Drugged

By Sonya Geis
Wednesday, June 20, 2007; A04

LOS ANGELES, June 19 — Two immigrants were held down and forcibly injected with sedatives by immigration officials who were attempting to deport them, the American Civil Liberties Union charged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

The class-action complaint targets the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Division of Immigration Health Services, an agency of the U.S. Public Health Service that contracts with ICE to provide medical services. The division is already facing lawsuits charging that it provides inadequate medical care to detained immigrants.

Both plaintiffs in Tuesday’s lawsuit claim they declined sedatives that were offered to them when immigration officials sought to deport them, but they were injected with a powerful antipsychotic anyway…

A note in Soeoth’s medical records states that Soeoth said, “I’m not ready to go,” and told officers he would not board an airplane. Another note indicates that Soeoth may have been a suicide risk, which his lawyer says is untrue.

Immigration agents injected him with the sedative, antipsychotic drug Haldol, according to his medical records. Soeoth’s deportation was canceled by airline security because they had not been notified by immigration authorities, records show.

The other plaintiff, Senegalese immigrant Amadou Diouf, 31, was put on a commercial flight at Los Angeles International Airport in handcuffs, his medical records show. Diouf protested that he should not be deported, then asked a flight attendant in French to speak to the captain. Medical escorts wrestled him to the floor of the airplane and injected him, the lawsuit states.

The captain asked them to leave, and Diouf was sent back to detention. Both men are now free while their immigration cases are on appeal, their attorney said…

I guess the ICE officers should have just clubbed the illegals into submission.

Do note that the American Civil Liberties Union is once again protecting non-Americans — and at the expense of Americans.

But it was ever thus.

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This article was posted by Steve Gilbert on Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 at 10:37 am. You can leave a response.

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