WaPo Tries Its Hand at Explaining Immigration Detention

[rangerrebew]

WaPo Tries Its Hand at Explaining Immigration Detention
But instead opts for Trump bashing — next time call your local pundit

By Andrew R. Arthur on November 20, 2019

The Washington Post published an article this week captioned "The Trump administration's immigration jails are packed, but deportations are lower than in Obama era". The article puzzled over why there are so many aliens in detention, but chose an odd poster boy in doing so, and failed to see the evidence that was right in front of its face. They could always have called me to explain.

The article focuses on one particular alien to set the piece:

    It has been nearly 700 days since Bakhodir Madjitov was taken to prison in the United States. He has never been charged with a crime.

    Madjitov, a 38-year-old Uzbek national and father of three U.S. citizens, received a final deportation order after his applications to legally immigrate failed. He is one of the approximately 50,000 people jailed on any given day in the past year under the authority of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE], the most foreigners held in immigration detention in U.S. history.

    The majority of those detainees, like Madjitov, are people with no prior criminal records.


https://cis.org/Arthur/WaPo-Tries-Its-Hand-Explaining-Immigration-Detention

[PeteS in CA]

@rangerrebew started a new thread about this same story. I deleted that thread and his post, in full, is below:

An Alien Obstructs His Deportation? Prosecute Him
 
By Dan Cadman on November 21, 2019

My colleague Art Arthur recently posted a blog pointing out the one-sided bias implicit in a recent Washington Post (WaPo) story about an overstayed alien from Uzbekistan, Bakhodir Madjitov. He has been in detention a considerable period of time because he has done everything he can to render "due process" meaningless by flouting a final order of removal issued by an immigration judge, and thereafter by physically refusing to allow himself to be boarded on a plane for repatriation — a point blithely overlooked, of course, by our friends at WaPo, despite its masthead claim that "Democracy Dies in Darkness."

It's worth noting a few things about this Uzbek, and Uzbekistan generally — call them outliers if you wish, though in many ways they cut to the heart of the issue, and what's wrong with our immigration system today.

First, we should note that Uzbekistan has been a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism and has bred its share of jihadists and terrorists, including in the United States where, in 2017, an Uzbek resident alien drove into a crowd in New York City with a rented van, resulting in 12 injuries and eight deaths. Is Madjitov a fundamentalist? His politico-religious views aren't known from what's been discussed, but ask yourself how the public would react if federal immigration authorities let this man out, despite being an obstreperous scofflaw ordered deported, after which he committed some heinous act. To say they would be vilified for rank stupidity is to seriously understate the matter.

https://cis.org/Cadman/Alien-Obstructs-His-Deportation-Prosecute-Him