Deportees : Do Not Sedate (unless you have permission)

Thu31Jan2008

Deportees : Do Not Sedate (unless you have permission)

10:27 H | Topics: Immigration - Justice - Politics

Apparently at least 56 deportees were being sedated in a 7 month period in 2006 and 2007, without their permission and without there being any history of mental illness. While the policy of making undocumented people take psychotropic drugs won't be done away with completely, it will now only be done as a last resort (yeah right) and agents must get a court order before administering drugs "to facilitate an alien's removal."
To get a sedation order from court, officials must show deportees have a history of physical resistance to being removed or are a danger to themselves.

The policy change came only after attention was drawn to the practice by a lawsuit filed by the ACLU.

Via / Pro Inmigrant

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