US Immigration

May I never be an illegal immigrant in the USA or otherwise in the custody of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office:

• Officials Hid Truth About Immigrant Deaths in Jail  - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/us/10detain.html
• America's Secret ICE Castle - http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100104/stevens
  

From the second article:

"If you don't have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he's illegal, we can make him disappear." Those chilling words were spoken by James Pendergraph, then executive director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Office of State and Local Coordination, at a conference of police and sheriffs in August 2008. Also present was Amnesty International's Sarnata Reynolds, who wrote about the incident in the 2009 report "Jailed Without Justice" and said in an interview, "It was almost surreal being there, particularly being someone from an organization that has worked on disappearances for decades in other countries. I couldn't believe he would say it so boldly, as though it weren't anything wrong." 

I particularly love the way that the same nation promotes the "Statue of Liberty" as a national icon, inscribed as it is with these words:

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."