Lawsuit: ICE drugging detainees set for deportation

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CNN

Former detainees of Immigration and Customs Enforcement accuse the agency in a lawsuit of forcibly injecting them with psychotropic drugs while trying to shuttle them out of the country during their deportation.

One of the drugs in question is the potent anti-psychotic drug Haldol, which is often used to treat schizophrenia or other mental illnesses. Doctors say they are required to see patients in person before such drugs are administered.

Two immigrants, Raymond Soeoth of Indonesia and Amadou Diouf of Senegal in West Africa, told CNN they were injected with the drugs against their will. Both are plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the government. They are seeking an end to the alleged practice and unspecified damages.

Dr. Paul Appelbaum, a professor of psychiatry, law and ethics at Columbia University, reviewed both men's medical records for this report and was stunned by what he discovered.

"I'm really shocked to find out that the government has been using physicians and using potent medications in this way," said Appelbaum, who also serves as a member of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.



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WTF! This F'ng criminal administration can't be gone soon enough!

[ceile]

1. This is the 2nd time today I've been speechless.

The first was the not guilty verdict in FL. What a day.....:grr: :banghead:

[Mnemosyne]

2. I cannot even comment. n/t

[Poll_Blind]

3. The thing that gets me most of all is the doctors who inject this shit.

What kind of doctor does that shit? I mean, years of medical school including courses on ethical medicine and they still can find people who do this shit?

It's third-world.

PB

[Karenina]

4. Welcome to the Fourth Reich.