Where is the outrage? We’ve seen what ICE does in some of our cities, dragging people through the streets and taking them away to somewhere their families and lawyers can’t locate them.
Even more cruel is the moving of these detained immigrants to foreign countries, being sent thousands of miles away to Africa where they know no one, have no money, and no job. It is a death sentence.
DHS claimed to USA TODAY that every person is “medically cleared before travel and leaves with necessary medications.” That isn’t what happened to Noslen Sendra Rodriguez, a man with uncontrolled diabetes (a very dangerous condition). He was put on a plane without his insulin. That was rectified, but ICE now plans to put him on another plane to Louisiana on its way to Africa! His family, wife, and children are in Florida. What is his crime? The misdemeanor of entering the U.S. illegally.
What happens in Africa? Does ICE keep track of those sent? The immigrants go to prison or where? Are they just dumped at the airport? This treatment violates every level of human decency. These immigrants are not the rapists and murderers that Donald Trump told us were everywhere. This moving of detained immigrants must stop now!
Do we have no shame? We may not be outright killing them but we are assigning them to a slow death. This level of inhumanity and cruelty is beyond any justification.
Bernadette Jones
Amherst
