USA Immigration Crime & Deportation

USA Immigration Deportation & Crime

We would like to see the USA lawmakers while we are investigating the abuses that have happened at Gitmo to take a look at the cruel and unusual punishment of young men that have lived in the US for the great majority of their lives, and because they and their families were to poor to hire lawyers, even cheap lawyers to assist them , and they were not told the implications of what it would mean if they were convicted, that there was a high likelihood that they could and would be deported back to a country that they have no knowledge of, and no understanding of the culture, or the language, as they were raised as Americans.

As it was explained to us it works like this, a kid maybe 19 years old commits a crime and is convicted, maybe he pleads guilty to get a lesser sentence on something he might have gotten dismissed or committed to a diversion program, if he had effective attorney, that would erase the conviction from his record. He goes to prison and someone from the government goes to them near the end of their term and says that they can get released early if they sign a waiver that has included in it a clause that effectively stops them from getting in front of a judge before they are deported. The kid knows no better and signs the waiver and then gets released early from prison as promised, but is immediately taken to a US immigration holding cell and is deported.

Once they are out of the country it is impossible for them to get in front of a US judge so they are banished for ever from their families.

Like cigarettes we are exporting our bad habits. We have young men that get a foul of the law, we put them in our prison system, and then after they are brutalized, and dehumanized, we export them to countries like Cambodia, where they are ill prepared for their own crime, much less seasoned hard core serial gang bangers.