Excerpt: "A large group of South Asian migrants and refugees say they were
placed in 'body bags' and subjected to the use of tasers by Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers as they were deported from the United
States, the Guardian reported Friday."
A holding facility for children detained at the US-Mexico border in Nogales,
Arizona. (photo: Ross D. Franklin/Pool Photo)
Obama's Government Is Violently Tasering, 'Body Bagging' Refugees
By teleSUR
28 May 16
"When I came to the US I had a dream... Now, I don't even want to say the
word America."
A large group of South Asian migrants and refugees say they were placed in
"body bags" and subjected to the use of tasers by Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) officers as they were deported from the United States, the
Guardian reported Friday.
In early April, 85 Bangladeshis, Nepalis and Indians that had failed to gain
asylum or otherwise secure legal status were sent back home on a charter
flight from Mesa, Arizona.
According to detainees that were interviewed, in order to place a detainee
in what they called body bags, a group of ICE officers would pin them to the
ground, tightly wrap them in a security blanket and fasten them with Velcro
belts. Once the deportee was restrained in such a manner, they were carried
on to the plane.
"That's something that made us really afraid," said Suhel Ahmed, a detainee
who told The Guardian about his experience witnessing these incidents. "And
me and a lot of fellow detainees started crying and begging [the ICE
officers] not to do the same thing to us - we told them, 'we'll walk, 'we'll
walk' [on to the plane]."
Ahmed also recounted being in fear at witnessing people being tasered.
"My body was shaking [in fear]," said Ahmed, describing how he watched
people being shocked.
In an email to the Guardian, ICE officials admitted that ICE officers had
used "minimal force" during boarding after "approximately a dozen of the
detainees refused to comply with officers' instructions and became
combative." In such an instance, they said, restraint blankets may also be
used.
However, ICE officers denied the taser allegations.
But despite the ICE's claims that only minimal force was used, all 85
detainees were handcuffed throughout their journey, which sometimes lasted
over 30 hours and resulted in them suffering minor injuries. Some detainees
were even left bleeding.
These allegations, if true, are extremely troubling and must be
investigated," Paromita Shah, the associate director of the National
Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild told The Guardian.
Fahd Ahmed, the executive director of Drum, a New York-based immigrants'
rights organization said to the Guardian: "Trump talks about building walls
or banning Muslims while the Obama administration is preventing refugees,
Muslims and others from seeking safety here, violently abusing such
migrants, and then colluding with other governments to deport them back to
their deaths."
Back in Bangladesh, where many of the migrants and refugees were from, fear
for their lives and live in hiding.
"When I came to the US I had a dream - this is the country of peace and
justice and human rights," said Khaled Miah, 36, describing why he had
embarked on the dangerous journey. "Now, I don't even want to say the word,
'America'."
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A holding facility for children detained at the US-Mexico border in Nogales,
Arizona. (photo: Ross D. Franklin/Pool Photo)
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Obama's Government Is Violently Tasering, 'Body Bagging' Refugees
By teleSUR
28 May 16
"When I came to the US I had a dream... Now, I don't even want to say the
word America."
large group of South Asian migrants and refugees say they were placed in
"body bags" and subjected to the use of tasers by Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) officers as they were deported from the United States, the
Guardian reported Friday.
In early April, 85 Bangladeshis, Nepalis and Indians that had failed to gain
asylum or otherwise secure legal status were sent back home on a charter
flight from Mesa, Arizona.
According to detainees that were interviewed, in order to place a detainee
in what they called body bags, a group of ICE officers would pin them to the
ground, tightly wrap them in a security blanket and fasten them with Velcro
belts. Once the deportee was restrained in such a manner, they were carried
on to the plane.
"That's something that made us really afraid," said Suhel Ahmed, a detainee
who told The Guardian about his experience witnessing these incidents. "And
me and a lot of fellow detainees started crying and begging [the ICE
officers] not to do the same thing to us - we told them, 'we'll walk, 'we'll
walk' [on to the plane]."
Ahmed also recounted being in fear at witnessing people being tasered.
"My body was shaking [in fear]," said Ahmed, describing how he watched
people being shocked.
In an email to the Guardian, ICE officials admitted that ICE officers had
used "minimal force" during boarding after "approximately a dozen of the
detainees refused to comply with officers' instructions and became
combative." In such an instance, they said, restraint blankets may also be
used.
However, ICE officers denied the taser allegations.
But despite the ICE's claims that only minimal force was used, all 85
detainees were handcuffed throughout their journey, which sometimes lasted
over 30 hours and resulted in them suffering minor injuries. Some detainees
were even left bleeding.
These allegations, if true, are extremely troubling and must be
investigated," Paromita Shah, the associate director of the National
Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild told The Guardian.
Fahd Ahmed, the executive director of Drum, a New York-based immigrants'
rights organization said to the Guardian: "Trump talks about building walls
or banning Muslims while the Obama administration is preventing refugees,
Muslims and others from seeking safety here, violently abusing such
migrants, and then colluding with other governments to deport them back to
their deaths."
Back in Bangladesh, where many of the migrants and refugees were from, fear
for their lives and live in hiding.
"When I came to the US I had a dream - this is the country of peace and
justice and human rights," said Khaled Miah, 36, describing why he had
embarked on the dangerous journey. "Now, I don't even want to say the word,
'America'."
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