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Collective insanity
2:51PM ON
05/16/2008
BY
Dave Segal
Lessons learned from Katrina: A few people might’ve slipped through the immigration net during the frenzy, so we’ll risk evacuating people even more slowly to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
U.S. citizenship to be checked in event of a storm
Agents to watch those in the Valley who board buses to flee a hurricaneBROWNSVILLE — Ending speculation about the fate of the Rio Grande Valley’s undocumented immigrants during a hurricane evacuation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed it will check the citizenship both of people boarding buses to leave the Valley and at inland traffic checkpoints.
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May 16th, 2008 at 8:26PM
JOE BERNSTEIN Says:
I am always glad I missed the transition from INS to ICE.I think they jettisoned the old fashioned common sense we had.Friends of mine who made the transition are all miserable and can’t wait to retire.The last thing needed in a natural disaster is added complications.
The other real problem is the privatization of detention facilities-when I was in the INS detainee deaths from medical causes were rare.Private detention companies don’t do the same vetting of employees that the Feds did,and there was better oversight by management at Government facilities.I believe we used the Public Health Service to evaluate medical problems back then.Now they have some new outfit in DHS that sounds dubious.
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