Bernadette Devlin deported - and similar cases (sent again with correct URLs]

[Gar Lipow]

[I sent this before - but with bad URS for the Candadian cases.]

You probably already heard that Bernadette Devlin wanted to visit the 
U.S. - and got deported

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nybres243144609feb24,0,2021307.column?coll=ny%2Dnews%2Dcolumnists

Around mid February, a Canadian woman of Indian Birth visited her mother 
in India. She returned to Canada via O'Hare. Some fool in Chicago 
Customs decided her passport was fake. He deported her, not back to 
Canada (she is a Canadian citizen) but to India. It took her a week to 
get back home. She lost her job. (Although it was returned to her when 
her employer heard the circumstances.)

The URL for this story is:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035777769334&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154

An even more serious case occurred in October. Another Canadian citizen, 
a man of Syrian birth was passing through the U.S.  For some reason they 
decided he was a terrorist, held him for two weeks, subjected him an INS 
hearing with no lawyer, and deported him to Syria. If he is lucky he is 

  rotting in a cell in a Syrian prison. I say "if he is lucky" because 
by now most
people who know Syria agree he is probably dead.

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/TGAM/20021014/UDEPON/International/international/internationalAmericasHeadline_temp/4/4/6/

Why is this any worse than the normal mass roundups we have been 
having?Well it probably isn't. But it is different, in that these are 
not people living (even temporarily) in the United States.  The two 
Canadian citizens were not even visiting the U.S.. They merely had the 
bad luck to have dark skin, and to change planes in the U.S.  That is 
right, at least one Canadian citizen is probably dead because he had the 
bad luck to change planes in the U.S. during an international flight.

I don't know why I find this shocking. I know this kind of stuff and 
worse happens all the time. I guess it just the extreme carelessness. 
There is no political or economic gain from this stuff. They risk lives, 
and threw away at least one life simply because they cannot be bothered 
not to.

On second thought, there is some political gain. Demonstrating utter 
indifference to, and carelessness with human life, is a traditional way 
for gangsters to create a climate of fear and gain street credibility.