Peter, There is a big difference between deportation versus arrest/detention and possibly torture for multiple years without a trial.
There is little or no oversight to the US government's activities in Guantanamo. So long as it remains closed, questions- justified or otherwise will continue to be raised, not unlike the situation with the Gulags of the late Soviet Union. What is even more troubling is that the US administration attempted (but failed) to apply such policies of detention without trial on its own citizens. Again, your support for such overbearing government polices is very troubling. As far as illegal immigrants, I would like to bring to your notice that "illegal" means against the law. These people have had their day in court. It happens in Canada and it happens in US. In fact in the US, even legally naturalized citizens can be deported for crimes that they may have committed after becoming citizens of the US. The real way to deal with illegal immigration would be to allow for a free market driven inflow or outflow of foreign labor. A company in the US (or anywhere for that matter) should have the right to terminate its local workforce if it can find lower priced but equivalent labor from outside the country. This is something positive that the current administration is working towards, though for obvious political reasons, it is a very modest effort. Marlon --- Peter D'Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If anybody's failed to reach this link, it's because > there's a point > missing between noticia and asp in the link posted > by Teotonio below. It > might be easier to use this URL instead: > http://tinyurl.com/msw9p > > Excerpt: Um rapaz de 22 anos deixou a esposa > grávida. Tem algum jeito > mandarem-no para cá, estar aqui seis meses sem a > mulher [canadiana] e > ela ter o bebé sem a presença dele? > > Folks, this is most tragic. What makes it more > unfortunate is that if > these were terrorists being "mistreated", we'd have > heard a huge public > outcry from the liberal do-gooders of the world. > However, since America > isn't the bad guy, we'll continue to hear stories > about hard working > Portuguese immigrants being separated from their > pregnant spouses in the > name of law enforcement. > > Peter > > Teotonio R. de Souza wrote: > > According to the Portuguese daily Correio da > Manhã (link below) about 15 > > to 22,000 Portuguese have been declared illegal > immigrants in Canada. They > > are being deported systematically and complain of > no help from the > > Portuguese authorities. Many of them seem to have > discounted from their > > hard-won salaries to the Canadian social security > and feel cheated. There > > have been similar moves in USA as well, from where > many Portuguese citizens > > of Azorean origin have been deported in recent > times. > > > > > > http://www.correiodamanha.pt/noticia > > asp?id=196337&idselect=10&idCanal=10&p=94 > > > > > > > _____________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. > Goanet mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > %(user_optionsurl)s > > This email sent to %(user_address)s > _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: %(user_optionsurl)s This email sent to %(user_address)s
