Tag Archive: war on terror

Detention within American borders

I was glad to read this great article today about America’s little known immigrant detention system, and simultaneously was shocked at the statistics. According to an official Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) database, almost 19,000 immigrants out of a total 32,000 who are currently detained within the U.S. “had no criminal conviction, not even for…

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Closing Guantanamo isn’t enough

We need more – we need the truth. We need to look back at the Bush Administration and investigate what went wrong with America’s rule of law during our “war on terror”: torture, illegal wiretapping, extraordinary rendition, and other human rights violations. Why did this happen? Who let it happen? And how can we ensure…

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