[IP] International Passengers & Airports
Or for that matter anyone attending a meeting in the USA or a US
school djf
Begin forwarded message:
From: Chris Beck <cbeck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 26, 2005 6:30:01 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: International Passengers & Airports
Hi Dave,
I don't know if you care to forward this, it isn't a technology issue
as such,
but it does track the stupid-airport-tricks meme. I don't recall
seeing it on
IP at the time. To me this seems in clear contradiction to Section 1
of the
14th Amendment, but IANSCOTUS.
Cheers,
Chris
From CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/08/11/arar-
lawsuit050811.html
Flyers passing through U.S. have few rights, Arar judge told
A senior lawyer for the U.S. government has told a judge hearing a
lawsuit over
Maher Arar's deportation to Syria that foreign citizens passing
through American
airports have almost no rights.
At most, Mary Mason told a hearing in Brooklyn, N.Y., passengers
would have the
right not to be subjected to "gross physical abuse."
The policy has implications for Canadians who head for international
destinations via big American airports in New York, Chicago, Los
Angeles and
other major centres.
Mason said the U.S. government is interpreting its powers in such a
way that
passengers never intending to enter the U.S. connecting to
international flights
at U.S. airports must prove they are no threat and could be allowed
to enter the
country.
If passengers are deemed to be inadmissible, they have no
constitutional rights
even if later taken to an American prison. Mason told Judge David
Trager that's
because they are deemed to be still outside the U.S., from a legal
point of view.
"Someone who's inadmissible is in the same category as the people
that the CIA
snatches and grabs from other countries," said Barbara Olshansky, a
lawyer for
the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights, which is suing a
number of U.S.
officials on Arar's behalf.
"You are fair game for however executive branch wants to treat you."
Mason said the interpretation means travellers can be detained
without charge,
denied the right to consult a lawyer, and even refused necessities
such as food
and sleep.
--
Chris Beck - http://pacanukeha.blogspot.com
Opinions of bureaucrats do not create wrongs.
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