February 8, 2006
TAMPA - Tuesday was the day that Sameeh Hammoudeh, an acquitted defendant in the Sami Al-Arian trial, was to be reunited with his wife and six children after three years in prison. But it didn't happen as planned.
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But when the family got to the gate where the plane was leaving, he was not there.
Instead, ICE officials brought in two other young men, who had been incarcerated with him in the Bradenton jail, and were being deported for overstaying their visas. But not Hammoudeh.
Nadia and the kids were trying to make sense of what was happening when her cell phone rang.
It was her husband in a panic: "They're not taking me to the airport, and I don't know why," he told her.
It was the fourth time in two months that ICE officials had set a departure date for Hammoudeh and canceled it.
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/02/08/Tampabay/Again__forced_apart.shtmlIt is really disgusting what the US Government has been doing to these people. So much for family values.