USA: illegal immigrants can be 'detained indefinitely'

by Josef Fri Apr 25, 2003 19:46

I feel your pain, NOT!

Relax. I know change is scary and people don't like it but these people know what they're doing. Just relax, stop worrying, you'll ruin your health.

by R Isible - 1 of IMC Fri Apr 25, 2003 19:51

It is great that you've not actually cut-and-pasted the entire article. However you didn't take the time to write a summary about why you think readers of indymedia.ie should be interested in this piece. Reproducing articles from mainstream news sources with none of your own commentary, context etc turns indymedia.ie into a free publicity annex of mainstream news. This is contrary to the ethos of indymedia which is supposed to be about YOU shaping the news.

Please, don't just use indymedia.ie in this way. If it's interesting enough then write a summary and provide the link. If you can't be bothered to do that then don't force the original and irish-specific material down the newswire.

by iR Isibly Fri Apr 25, 2003 20:59

R Isible's comments are unoriginal.

this is good info - there were comments written above, so go back to being the arm-chair censor that wish to be

by Bernard Fri Apr 25, 2003 22:28

People here speak as if the GOP had just sprung from nowhere in the last few years and taken over the country. Abe Lincoln was a Republican. The GOP has a fine democratic tradition. The constant use of therms like fascism is an attmept to make mud stick. A brainwashing technique.

by Lone Gunman Sat Apr 26, 2003 11:35

YAWN!! the USA has been running a proper immigration control system since the last 150 years.So they have tightend up abit more.Pity they wouldnt go back to the old system where these catogories of people were automatically deported. Anarchists,drug users,communists,prostitutes,and carriers of infectious diseases.[Do check out Ellis island somtime].If the USA had IRELANDS system in place where anyone can show up ,claim persecution in their own land,[of what?],and get free handouts of food,[and bitch&moan about that,as happened in the Knocklisheen camp in Limerick]accomadation,and clothing.Stroll about the place with no paperwork and apply for a job,a car,and insurance[YOU DO require apermenant address for those things].IT would have ceased to exist about a hundred years ago.
Dont mistrue this post as racist[no doubt some will].But this is a FACT of Irish life these days.
HOW are supposed poor[IE no money] documentless[IE no passport,drivers lic,Soc sec,etc] refugees living on Irish state handouts[poor that they are] buying,taxing&insureing cars??Even clapped out 90 regs? This is somthing that does not happen in the US if you wash up on its beaches.And proper order too! Get your paperwork in order and you can live and work over there no problem.And dont blather on about the illegal Irish over there.They have already got a nickname with the US Immigration."Narrowback"The US was smart enough to set up the checkpoint in Shannon to prevent the embarrasment of Irish people being dumped of the planes in orange jumpsuits and manacles.

by George McGovern Sat Apr 26, 2003 13:29

The Reason Why
by George McGovern
http://mail.dublin.ie/modules/refer.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenation.com%2Fdoc.mhtml%3Fi%3D20030421%26s%3Dmcgovern

Thanks to the most crudely partisan decision in the history of the Supreme Court, the nation has been given a President of painfully limited wisdom and compassion and lacking any sense of the nation's true greatness. Appearing to enjoy his role as Commander in Chief of the armed forces above all other functions of his office, and unchecked by a seemingly timid Congress, a compliant Supreme Court, a largely subservient press and a corrupt corporate plutocracy, George
W. Bush has set the nation on a course for one-man rule.

by Gerry Sun Apr 27, 2003 02:34

Rememeber-they are here illegally

by explain this Sun Apr 27, 2003 16:18

and therefore have no rights?

by Gerry Mon Apr 28, 2003 02:46

That is correct-they are not US citizens. If one entered Ireland illegally, would they get all kinds of public assistance from the government?

by MG Mon Apr 28, 2003 10:56

The Government of the Republic of Ireland is responsible for the well-being of every human being on its territory, whether they enter legally or illegally. We have signed up to international human rights treaties, you know.

by Lone Gunman Mon Apr 28, 2003 19:24

You have a nasty upcoming racisim problem.because it looks like you are more concerned with any chancer and other floatsam that washes up here,rather than with the domestic underprivilidged.