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Friday, October 12th, 2007...9:51 pm

ICE Drugging Deportees

I have become somewhat inured to reports of atrocities committed by USA government officials in these days of torture, habeas corpus suspension, black CIA jails, and such; but the hits just keep on coming.

CNN is reporting that “Former detainees of Immigration and Customs Enforcement accuse the agency in a lawsuit of forcibly injecting them with psychotropic drugs while trying to shuttle them out of the country during their deportation.”

The “psychotropic” drug administered was Haldol, an anti-psychotic concoction prescribed most often to folks with serious mental illness, certainly not a drug used as a tranquilizer.

The CNN report indicates that

“Haldol is a drug used to treat psychotic disorders and symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions and hostility ‘to control muscular tics of the face, neck, hands and shoulders’
• Side effects of the drug can include seizures, tremors, irregular heartbeat, difficulty breathing and other symptoms
• Cogentin is a drug used to treat symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and to offset tremors caused by other medications
• Side effects can include drowsiness, difficulty urinating, depression and delusions”

Here’s a link from CNN’s report to an ICE document containing the “prescription” for one of the drugged deportees.

Just as has been demonstrated in Guantanamo, it is apparently not difficult to find compliant doctors in nicely starched brown shirts.

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