Immigration Law
Hundreds of Deported Foreigners Drugged for Flight Home
Posted May 14, 2008, 10:14 am CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A Washington Post investigation has found the government injected more than 250 deported foreigners with psychiatric drugs to keep them sedated for their flights home.
In dozens of cases the deportees were so incapacitated by the drugs they had to be taken onto the planes in wheelchairs. A medical note about one deportee without a wheelchair reported, "Unsteady gait. Fell onto tarmac."
One deportation file contained a nurse’s allegations that one officer taunted “Nighty-night” before a deportee was restrained and injected with drugs.
The Post story was based on internal documents and interviews with people who said they received the medications. The story says drugging detainees without their consent or medical justification is a violation of some… Continue reading...
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