Posted on 01/12/2008 5:35:55 AM PST by kellynla
LOS ANGELES -- U.S. immigration officials have told their agents not to sedate deportees without a court order, according to a memo obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
The change in policy was announced internally Wednesday and came after a federal lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union. The change is effective immediately, according to the memo.
"Field officers may no longer request a medical escort ... in order to administer involuntary sedation to facilitate an alien's removal unless the government has obtained an order authorizing sedation from a federal district court," wrote John Torres, detention and removal director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A spokeswoman verified the memo's authenticity.
"The directive is consistent with ICE's commitment to maintain safe, secure, and humane conditions for those in our custody," said spokeswoman Virginia Kice. "Medical sedation will only be considered as a last resort."
To get a sedation order from court, officials must show deportees have a history of physical resistance to being removed or are a danger to themselves.
"There are no exceptions to this policy," the memo said.
ping
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated
Nothin’ to do and no where to go-o-oh I wanna be sedated
Just get me to the airport put me on a plane
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane
I can’t control my fingers I can’t control my brain
Oh no no no no no
The ACLU is the enemy of the United States.
Good ruling. Otherwise, today illegal aliens, tomorrow anyone giving government employees grief.
Tase ‘em, Bro!
More anti-American pandering of illegal aliens.
If they followed the law in the first place, they would not need to be sedated
Total enemy, no kidding.
ah yes, straight jackets will be so much more humane.
The federal government sedating as policy, even illegals seem too Stalinist.
Shoot out the kneecaps of the ones who physical resist and the rest will fall in line. (Just kidding)
I hope you're only half kidding...
If one of these deportees is resisting the execution of a court order the officers carrying out that order should use all force necessary...and sufficient that it does not put THEM at risk...to ensure that order is carried out as expeditiously as possible.
Whatever it takes.
I don’t mind them shackling, tasering or applying force to rein in a rowdy detainee’s as a direct application of force due to conditions.
The line stops at involuntary injection at the behest of law enforcement without some type of oversight....Which is what the courts ruled.
This is not a pandering for illegals but a true human rights and state control issue.
That's really my point, I'm sure the vast majority of illegals caught are not going to physical resist. so why sedate them all?
That seems like a very bad precedent.
The ones that do, knee cap them first, them sedate them.
A slippery slope we are on, at what point do the police start to sedate legitimate protesters ?
We have swat teams breaking down doors with no knock warrants to search for granny drug dealers. Ever think that we be normal police precedent ?
What do they do until they get a court order? Beat the hell out of them?
Yeah .... ONE should do the trick.
excellent ‘toon!
thanks for posting!
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