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Yet, in grossly overcrowded conditions, they're denied "due process, a release date or an attorney." Many may face indefinite detention for months, in 24-hour lockups, without "food, treated drinking water, medical or mental health care." They have no toilets, sinks, lighting, or room to lie down. Instead, they "must lay directly on insect, rat infested cement floors" in sweltering heat.
Post-quake, conditions are even worse. No matter. Washington-ordered deportations will resume. In a December 16 letter to Obama, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) also objected after 100 Haitians got final orders, were rounded up, and transferred to Louisiana. Outraged, CCR said:
"Sending people to Haiti under these circumstances will end up being a death sentence for many. Sending additional people from the US into the Haitian prison system will also further stress the resources available to the impoverished" already there.
CCR wants deportations halted on humanitarian grounds. Since taking office in January 2009, Obama officials showed Haitians no compassion, in spite of dire post-quake conditions, raging cholera, and the aftermath of the fraudulent election they engineered.
Contemptuously, they now want minor offenders returned to hellish conditions so bad it may kill them. It's a shocking indictment of a criminally unjust administration, planning anguish, human misery and exploitation, not aid, for desperately needy people. Mass outrage is needed to stop them. The lives and welfare of everyone sent back are at stake.
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