such "arriving aliens" are not considered to be in the United States at all, even if they are in custody, they have none of the legal rights that even illegal immigrants can claim. (...) "The border patrol officer said to my face that Domenico said he would be killed if he went back to Italy," she recalled, voicing incredulity that, in his halting English, he could express such a thought. "Also, who on earth would ever seek asylum from Italy?" [LOL - maybe because of this: The youngest son of a prosperous contractor in Calabria, Mr. Salerno helps out in his brother's law firm in Rome] (...) he was taken to the Pamunkey Regional Jail in Hanover, Va., where he ended up in a barracks with 75 other men, including asylum-seekers who told him they had been waiting a year. (...) "They were pretty shocked that the government could do this sort of thing, because it doesn't happen that often, except to people you never hear about, like Haitians and Guatemalans."
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"The border patrol officer said to my face that Domenico said he would be killed if he went back to Italy," she recalled, voicing incredulity that, in his halting English, he could express such a thought. "Also, who on earth would ever seek asylum from Italy?"
[LOL - maybe because of this: The youngest son of a prosperous contractor in Calabria, Mr. Salerno helps out in his brother's law firm in Rome]
he was taken to the Pamunkey Regional Jail in Hanover, Va., where he ended up in a barracks with 75 other men, including asylum-seekers who told him they had been waiting a year.
"They were pretty shocked that the government could do this sort of thing, because it doesn't happen that often, except to people you never hear about, like Haitians and Guatemalans."
So many implicit (or not-so-implicit) assumptions laid bare in that article... In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
The larger problem is what, if anything, the next administration will do to prevent a recurrence of these policies in subsequent generations. What I, on a visceral level, would like to see done probably would not be good policy and would "set a bad president" (and vice president--on 8 foot x 3" sharpened hickory stakes planted in the White House lawn.) I can only hope that more effective deterents can be devised. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
