Ankle bracelets to monitor aliens/immigrants

[msportmore]

I heard this on NPR this morning:

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The Department of Homeland Security is experimenting with a controversial new method to keep better track of immigrants awaiting appeals on their applications to remain in the United States. It is requiring aliens in eight cities to wear electronic monitors 24 hours a day.

The ankle bracelets are the same monitors that some rapists and other convicted criminals have to wear on parole. But the government's pilot project is putting monitors on aliens who have never been accused of a crime.

So far, the Department of Homeland Security has put electronic monitors on more than 1,700 immigrants. Victor Cerda, director of Detention and Removal Operations at Homeland Security, says the anklets will help prevent tens of thousands of immigrants who are ordered to leave the country each year from "absconding" -- going into hiding to avoid deportation.

Click here to listen to the report which includes one man from Belize who lived in the US for 5 years, applied for his citzenship, was turned down - and was forced to wear the bracelet (and had to be in his house by 6pm every day)

[Tuff Gong]

Re: Ankle bracelets to monitor aliens/immigrants

The Rise of the Fourth Reich.
I wonder when the Final Solution is going to commence?

[msportmore]

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When I first heard it, I thought they would focus on individuals from countries in the Far East so I thought to myself "stereotype"...but then when I kept listening, I noticed it was immigrants from all over - including the lady from Liberia, the guy from Belize and no doubt, even Jamaicans.

[Tuff Gong]

Re: Ankle bracelets to monitor aliens/immigrants

Originally posted by Portmore...:
[qb] When I first heard it, I thought they would focus on individuals from countries in the Far East so I thought to myself "stereotype"...but then when I kept listening, I noticed it was immigrants from all over - including the lady from Liberia, the guy from Belize and no doubt, even Jamaicans. [/qb]

That is how Adolph started out:
Elected by the people.
Beating the drums of war.
Sneaking in innocent looking programs that were designed to appease the real and imagined fears of the German people.
Then dropping the hammer, The Final Solution.


First They Came for the Jews
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller

[yardy]

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Oh boy, might as well them put them in chains or handcuffs

[babydoll]

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dayummm dat sound bad....

I remember when GW bush was in his first year. I was working part time at Staples then. During that time, a little old lady about 90 -- closer to 100 came in and was writing letters to stop the war in Iraq. She would say, "when I hear him speak, it is as if Hitler was speaking..." She as smart and was involved in many things but I thought at her age, maybe she was taking things a little far....now.....

[fOrTyLeGz]

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The U.S. is going berserk. This "Patriot Act" and the fear of terrorists is running the whole country. I just don't get it, why cant they see that the terrorists arent in America. If they were they would have done SOMETHING. And if they had done something, then the U.S. would have totally freaked out.

It wasnt so long ago that America was the "land of the free, and the home of the brave." Now it's the land of the freaked, and the home of the afraid.