Shall we extend this slightly? Detention without trial incommunicado, without access to a lawyer, expulsion from the US, there's lots of examples available. These came up in a chat last night with koan just trawling as we talked.
http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/07 ... r-nothing/
Cyrus Kar, 44, of Los Feliz, Calif., a U.S. Navy veteran, was in Iraq filming a documentary on Persian history on May 17 when he got into a taxi and was taken into custody by the U.S. military [...] While the military investigation had revealed that the timers belonged to the taxi driver and not to Kar, he is still being held indefinitely and has not been charged. In addition, an FBI investigation has cleared him of wrongdoing. The ACLU has filed a writ of habeas corpus in an effort to have him freed.
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/20 ... 50922.html
According to the lawsuit, both a uniformed police officer and the man in the unmarked car, who was later identified as Detective D.A. Gorman of the Homeland Security Division, pulled in behind Childs and Freeman and ordered them to exit their car. Detective Gorman then demanded that Childs turn over the piece of paper on which she had copied his license tag number. Childs refused to hand the paper over to him, and was handcuffed and searched by a male officer, despite her request to be searched only by a female officer. Both Childs and Freeman were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, and police confiscated the piece of paper and Childs' house keys. Both individuals were released from custody, but neither the piece of paper nor the keys were returned to Childs.
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish ... _956.shtml
"Hey, listen. I'm a veteran. This is a V.A. facility. I'm sitting here not talking to anybody, having a cup of coffee. I'm not protesting and you can't kick me out."
"You'll either go or we'll arrest you," Adkins threatened.
"Well, you'll just have to arrest me," I said, wondering what strange land I was now living in.
You know the rest. Handcuffed, led away to the facility's security office, past people with surprised looks on their faces, read my rights, searched, and written up.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... May22.html
When Leiby landed at Dulles International Airport on Thursday night, grim-faced U.S. customs agents confiscated the tray and $2 worth of Iraqi currency, detained him for two hours under armed guard, subjected him to four different interrogations, shadowed him to the men's room and even denied him permission to call his wife, Theresa Defino, who was in the family Volvo circling the airport and worrying.
"I'm sorry if Mr. Leiby was treated rudely, but the agents followed established procedures," Customs spokesman Bill Anthony told us, adding that the law still classifies Iraq as a nation under international embargo.
"It was my understanding we now run Iraq," Leiby told us.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/09/22/plane. ... d.stevens/
The singer formerly known as Cat Stevens was making his way back to London Wednesday after being taken off a diverted trans-Atlantic flight by U.S. officials [...] Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge accused Yusuf Islam, the singer's Muslim name, of having some unspecified relationship with terrorist activity. "Celebrity or unknown, our job is to act on information that others have given us," Ridge said. "And in this instance, there was some relationship between the name and the terrorists' activity with this individual's name being on that no-fly list, and appropriate action was taken."
United Airlines Flight 919 from London to Washington was diverted to Maine after Islam's name turned up on a list designed to keep terrorists or their supporters from boarding flights, U.S. officials said.
"We are getting a little tired of this kind of Kafkaesque treatment of people, where vague allegations are made and actions are taken against individuals and organizations," Hooper said. He said American Muslim leaders "need to know where the allegations are coming from." "I don't think we want to be in a situation where people are denounced by anonymous government officials and labeled as terrorists and that's it -- everybody says 'OK, we don't need any more information.' We need more information," he said.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/02/12/airline.nuns/
Four California nuns say they were among six passengers kept off an American Airlines flight in January after crew members complained of a sulfur smell in the cabin and ordered passengers off the plane.
"I felt discriminated very much, because the four of us were taken out from that group, kept us aside, not telling us why we were there," said Sister Tessy Pius, the principal of Mary Immaculate Queen School in Lemoore, California. She and the three other nuns are natives of India and are employed at the school.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... alert.html
A Muslim airline captain fell victim to the terror alert at Britain's airports - when he was hauled off a flight as it prepared to leave Manchester for the USA.
Off-duty Amar Ashraf, 28, was settling in his seat as a stand-by passenger on the Continental Airlines' flight to Newark when a stewardess said he had to get off.
Mr Ashraf said he was later told US aviation security chiefs had ordered his removal from the jet, even though he has been security vetted for his job with one of Continental's partner airlines.
http://www.abanet.org/publicserv/immigr ... omeland%22
If you are experiencing problems where you are detained, the American Bar Association (ABA) would like to know. The ABA is working on behalf of detained individuals to advocate for better conditions in ICE detention. We will use the information that detainees provide us as a summary of problems in ICE detention.
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/detention/ ... 50627.html
"The situation was frightening and intimidating," said Rahman, a native-born U.S. citizen and owner of a suburban Chicago software company. "I simply could not believe what was happening. I am an American citizen, simply re-entering my own country. Even after I presented multiple forms of valid identification as recommended by the Department of Homeland Security, I was handcuffed for approximately three hours and guarded like a felon for nearly six hours. The policies that caused this to happen to me or other innocent persons must be changed."
Rahman described the May 8, 2005 detention at the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel as the most harrowing and frightening example in an escalating series of detentions that began 15 months ago. Since March 2004, Rahman has been detained and questioned by DHS on five separate occasions as he re-entered the country after business or personal trips abroad. Four of the detentions lasted unnecessarily long periods of time (between two and six hours), longer than was reasonably required for determining Rahman's identity and allowing him to proceed into the United States, the ACLU said.
http://news.com.com/2010-1071-996625.html
Intel engineer Mike Hawash is in solitary confinement in a federal prison in Sheridan, Ore.
On Mar. 20, the FBI arrested Hawash at gunpoint in Intel's parking lot near Portland for reasons that remain confidential. A 38-year-old American citizen with a wife and three children, he has not been charged with a crime [...] Hawash is being held as a "material witness" under a 1984 law that the Justice Department believes should let the government detain American citizens at will for an arbitrary length of time. A well-researched Washington Post article from last fall said the Justice Department has imprisoned at least 44 people, including seven U.S. citizens, under the same law, with some held for many months and possibly for more than a year.
