If you have not been sleeping under a rock, you know that in Guantanamo Bay we have children incarcerated who were captured during our "war" with Afghanistan. Sad but old news. Well in this story from the Miami Herald, it seems that we are incarcerating kids who have been granted asylum by our courts.
Enter Ashcroft, invoking his broadened powers as the nation's top cop. He ordered that David and other Haitian detainees stay locked up without bond. Among those are numerous children, some of them toddlers, who have been confined for months under armed guard in Miami-area hotel rooms. They aren't allowed to step out the door, much less play outside.
How incredible that our tax dollars are paying for armed officers to hold children as prisoners. Makes you proud, doesn't it?
In custody at the Krome Detention Center are Haitians who were granted asylum by immigration judges, who said they deserved it. They remain incarcerated because the government is fighting to overturn the court decisions.
The Ashcroft Reichsministry of Justice has decided that immigrants, even those who have been legally allowed into the country, should be detained for "National Security" Great, more proof that poor, disenfranchised and black are a winning combination with Herr Reichsmarshall Ashcroft.
At this point, the biggest threat to National Security in this country is named John Ashcroft. He ought to be the one locked up, or at least tossed out. I hope that on Jan 21st 2005 rolls around, the new President heads over to Justice and personally carts Ashcroft and all his stuff into the street. Then have him arrested as a "material witness" to all the illegal acts committed in the last couple of years, and held in solitary.
