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Re: Ill and in Pain, Detainee Dies in U.S. Hands
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Originally Posted by Traveler
No it would not be a violation of international law/UN charters because those countries now will no longer torture. Some of those folks were kids when they came over, they are now grown adults and their families signed papers vowing never to go back to those countries (Romania, the Ukraine, Poland, Hungary etc) but now that the governments are open its not too much of a problem. We wouldn't send them back if we suspected even an ounce of a chance of them being tortured on return.
However i'm not even sure what the status is on them if they are in the country now and on asylum laws with countries no longer living under tyranny, i think technically they are still fine unless they apply for citizenship in which case they then break the immigration laws by fraudulantly trying to become a citizen on the same asylum grounds, which don't apply as they are no longer in fear of their lives etc. I'll have to check i think.
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Yeah, you check. I doubt that all the countries that have "normalized" relations with the US are not torturing. For a while and some even now, we are buddies with Uzbekistan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia etc, which are on the bottom of Freedom House Freedom in the World report. And I know that we deport people back to Saudi Arabia, Haiti, etc, though they are not in Eastern Europe, they definitely torture.
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