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DEAD AND FORGOTTEN

By Greg Siskind

The New York Times, which has rightly earned a reputation for providing perhaps the most in depth immigration coverage of any newspaper in the country, has an important story this morning on how Immigration and Customs Enforcement has not been forthcoming on reporting deaths of detainees in its custody. Nina Bernstein's outstanding report initially focuses on the death of Ahmad Tanveer, a Pakistani New Yorker who died in 2005 at the Monmouth County Correctional Facility in Freehold, New Jersey. The difficulty of confirming the very existence of the dead man, Ahmad Tanveer, 43, a Pakistani New Yorker, shows how death...

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on April 03, 2009 (boomark / email).