The Washington Post Discovers U.S. Government Drugged Immigrants For Deportation

14 May 2008, 7:00 PM. By Alex Alvarez

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The Washington Post has identified over 250 cases in which the government injected detainees scheduled for deportation with antipsychotic drugs - without medical necessity. Curious that all these cases have occurred since 2003, which just so happens to be the year the Bush administration gave the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency responsible for the task of handling deportations.

The government’s forced use of antipsychotic drugs, in people who have no history of mental illness, includes dozens of cases in which the “pre-flight cocktail,” as a document calls it, had such a potent effect that federal guards needed a wheelchair to move the slumped deportee onto an airplane.

“Unsteady gait. Fell onto tarmac,” says a medical note on the deportation of a 38-year-old woman to Costa Rica in late spring 2005. Another detainee was “dragged down the aisle in handcuffs, semi-comatose,” according to an airline crew member’s written account. Repeatedly, documents describe immigration guards “taking down” a reluctant deportee to be tranquilized before heading to an airport.

Because, you know. Brown people aren’t really, like. People people. And, oh, it gets better:

After injecting the sedatives, the nurse travels with the deportee and immigration guards to their destination, usually giving more doses along the way. To recruit medical escorts, the government has sought to glamorize this work. “Do you ever dream of escaping to exotic, exciting locations?” said an item in an agency newsletter. “Want to get away from the office but are strapped for cash? Make your dreams come true by signing up as a Medical Escort for DIHS!”

The nurses are required to fill out step-by-step medical logs for each trip. Hundreds of logs for the past five years, obtained by The Post, chronicle in vivid detail deviations from the government’s sedation rules.

Oh how glamorous! We always dreamed of rounding people up like cattle and dumping them unceremoniously into far-off lands replete with poverty, crime and poor health care. Glamor-yes! Just like Beyonce! Thank you, Uncle Sam.

Some Detainees Are Drugged For Deportation [Washington Post]

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  1. Lola del Rio
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    lola del rio wrote

    Rev. Wright wasn’t so wrong.

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    Bosrican wrote

    This is fucking unbelievable. I mean, it’s one thing to voluntarily take antipsychotics on the non-stop trip to Cancun during Spring Break, but for a nazi nurse bitch to dope your sorry ass all the way to La Paz is positively Nazi. Good thing I’m not bitter. Can you imagine this shit going down with an Irish or British immigrant?

  3. (+1)
    el smrtmnky wrote

    @Bosrican: well, yes. in England. if you happen to be Irish or mayhaps someone of Arabic background.

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