Immigration Officials Change Rules After Abuses of Sept. 11 Detainees

[happyending]

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The rules announced Tuesday follow an investigation that found fault with the treatment of 800 people detained after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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Under the new rules, high-ranking Homeland Security officials will be required to approve any long-term detentions. A review by the Justice Department's inspector general found "significant problems" with the treatment of post-Sept. 11 detainees, including abusive conditions at a federal lockup in Brooklyn.
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The inspector general found guards at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn slammed detainees against walls, twisted their arms, conducted unnecessary strip searches, banged on cell doors while detainees were trying to sleep and tried to hide security camera tapes that confirmed many of the abuse allegations.
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[Taylor Mason Powell]

1. All well and good, but what about PRIOR to 9/11?

At least two, possibly more, of the hijackers should never have had their visas approved in the first place. If the INS people had simply done their jobs, 9/11 might not have been possible, as several perpetrators could not have even gotten into the country. When we speak of the chain of improbable governmental screwups that led to 9/11, the INS was arguably the first link in that chain.

And remember how one of the hijackers' student visas was unthinkingly RENEWED 6 months after 9/11?