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Other People's Blood - U.s. Immigration Prisons In The Reagan Decade (Paperback)
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Other People's Blood - U.s. Immigration Prisons In The Reagan Decade (Paperback)
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During the 1980s hundreds of thousands of refugees fled civil wars
and death squads in Central America, seeking safe haven in the
United States. Instead, thousands found themselves incarcerated in
immigration prisons--abused by their jailors and deprived of the
most basic legal and human rights. Drawing on declassified
government documents and interviews with prison officials, INS
staff, and more than 3,000 Central American refugees, Robert S.
Kahn reveals how the Department of Justice and its dependent
agency, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, intentionally
violated federal laws and regulations to deny protection to
refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala who were fleeing wars
financed by U.S. military aid.Kahn portrays the chilling reality of
daily life in immigration prisons in Texas, Arizona, and Louisiana.
Behind the razor-topped prison walls, refugees were not simply
denied political asylum; they were beaten, robbed, sexually
assaulted, and sometimes tortured by prison guards."Other People's
Blood" traces the ten-year legal struggle by volunteer prison
workers and attorneys to stop the abuse of refugees and to force
the Justice Department to concede in court that its treatment of
immigrants had violated U.S. laws and the Geneva Convention for
over a decade. Yet the case of "American Baptist Churches v.
Thornburgh, " which overturned more judicial decisions than any
other case in U.S. history, is still virtually unknown in the
United States, and today the debate over illegal immigration is
being carried on with little awareness of the government policies
that contributed so shamefully to this country's immigration
problems.
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