Careless Detention Series

The Washington Post's Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein presented an in-depth look at immigration detention in the U.S. The report is thorough and the information is presented through pictures, stories, and video.

I highly encourage you to take a look at the 4 part series. Because of our location, at an international land crossing, many of our clients go through the process of detentions. This report confirms their stories of their time in U.S. detention facilities.

The last part of the series focused on deportation:

The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who have been drugged.

The government's forced use of antipsychotic drugs, in people who have no history of mental illness, includes dozens of cases in which the "pre-flight cocktail," as a document calls it, had such a potent effect that federal guards needed a wheelchair to move the slumped deportee onto an airplane.

Read the whole story here.