Palestinian Refugees and Children Held in Hutto, Texas Jail

[donsu]

http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2006/12/out-of-sight.html

(sorry, forgot to put in link)

Palestinian Refugees and Children Held in Hutto, Texas Jail

Some of the children and a pregnant woman being held in an immigration jail in Texas are Palestinian refugees whose families came to the USA with visas, says a Dallas lawyer.

Immigration attorney John Wheat Gibson represents two families that include a pregnant woman and children ages 2, 3, 5, 12, 14, and 17. The families have been incarcerated since their midnight arrests in early November by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

"The children, imprisoned with their mothers, have never been accused of any wrongdoing. Neither have their mothers," says Gibson. "All are Palestinian refugees who entered the U.S. legally, but have been denied asylum."

The fathers were separated from their families, the two-year-old was placed into foster care, and the remaining women and children were sent to the privatized Hutto jail in Taylor, Texas. The education of the school-aged children has been interrupted.

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Suleiman, a diabetic, sits in a chilly cell at the Garvin County Jail, Oklahoma, where the stink from an overflowing toilet "is horrible."

"There is another diabetic, here, too," says the Suleiman affidavit. "The guards bring us evening medication late, after supper, although it should be taken with food. The food served here is dangerous to diabetics, because it is sweet. I asked them to leave the sugar out of my oatmeal, but they refused. I take medication in the morning and because I cannot take it with food my blood sugar is very low."
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and there was this:

"Compare the treatment of the Colombian wife of Georgia State Senator Curt B. Thompson last week," Gibson said.

"She also was under a final order of deportation, but the DHS did not detain her, even though, unlike my clients, she had been hiding from them since November 28, according to Brenda Goodman, writing in the New York Times, December 6."



america the beautiful

[Tom Joad]

1. Thanks for the story.

[sandnsea]

2. Could we get a link

I'm wondering if there's statistics, why they were denied asylum, what's up with the husbands, why one child is in foster care, etc.

This is just disgusting.

[donsu]

3. sorry, link is in now

nt

[peacetalksforall]

4. And consider the taxpayer funded Leer jet rides of the bin Laden

family. The little people of this world need a savior to return to earth.

Too bad they aren't really little so that they could escape the view range of the rich.

What a childhood those kids have.

In another thread, two Pasletinian girls, one 12, the other 14 were shot near a fence - one is dead., but not in Texas.