Fronteras.org

Now, I don’t know Exactly how to label this one…is it a victory that court orders are now required, or is it an inherent loss that this is even an issue?  I don’t know, and I guess you’ll have to tell me, but the bottom line, the aforementioned is true:  A new memo was just passed around informing all officers must now receive a judge’s order before they can sedate deportees that are unwilling to abide by their deportation.

Sedating people so they can remove them from the country.  Wow.  Don’t know really where to go from there, but nevertheless, according to the memo:

“The memo, written by ICE Director of the Office of Detention and Removal Operations John Torres [official profile] and released Wednesday, said that in order to receive permission to sedate, officials must show a judge that a deportee has a history of physically resisting removal or that they pose a danger to themselves.” 

I guess the simple fact that some 56 deportees were given psychotropic drugs over only a 7-month period during 2006-2007.  33 of those 56 had NO sign of any previous mental illness, so it really makes you wonder, who are the crazy ones?