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America's Secret ICE Castles. Immigration agents are holding US residents in unlisted and unmarked

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

America's Secret ICE Castles Immigration agents are holding US residents in unlisted and unmarked subfield offices By Jacqueline Stevens This article will appear in the January 4, 2010 edition of The Nation. December 16, 2009 "If you don't have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he's illegal, we can make him disappear." Those chilling words were spoken by James Pendergraph, then executive director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Office of State and Local Coordination, at a conference of police and sheriffs in August 2008. Also present was Amnesty International's Sarnata Reynolds, who wrote about the incident in the 2009 report "Jailed Without Justice" and said in an interview, "It was almost surreal being there, particularly being someone from an organization that has worked on disappearances for decades in other countries...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 23, 2009 (boomark / email).