Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Tom Morton - the Obama administration's man for mass detention!

Says it in the Socialist Worker - so it must be true! Click on this link for the article the excerpt below comes from.

ACCORDING TO Tom Morton, the practice of mass detention must continue, "but it needs to be done thoughtfully and humanely."

If this sounds like a comment about alleged "enemy combatants" held in the U.S. prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, or even a statement about the millions of men and women filling an overcrowded U.S. prison system, it's not.

Tom Morton heads the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the Obama administration, and he's referring to a proposed overhaul of the notoriously chaotic and sprawling system of immigration detention.

1 comment:

obanclipper said...

Ah yes, yes - the U.S. spy webcam at Bruichladdich a bit back, it's all slotting into place ......

I think we should be told