[Shadow_Group] Baptist Minister Dies in Custody While Seeking Asylum

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> Amnesty International is saddened and outraged that an 81-year-old asylum
> seeker, the Rev. Joseph Dantica, has died in detention in Florida. Rev.
> Dantica arrived in Miami on October 29, 2004, entering the country legally
> with his own passport and a valid visa. The minister had fled Haiti after
> he cooperated with Haitian police and UN troops conducting a raid - and
> then was threatened by Haitian gang members as a result. Upon his arrival
> at Miami International Airport, Rev. Dantica forthrightly declared that he
> wished to apply for asylum, even though this meant giving up the
> opportunity to enter the country on his visitor's visa.
>
> Instead of releasing the elderly minister to his family in the United
> States - some of whom are U.S. citizens - the authorities sent him to the
> Krome detention center, southwest of Miami. His family reports that his
> medicine was confiscated. After several days in detention, Dantica became
> violently ill, and was eventually transferred to Jackson Memorial Hospital
> in Miami. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) refused to allow Rev.
> Dantica's family members to visit him in the hospital - "for security
> reasons" - and he died there, alone.
>
> ACT NOW:
> http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=11325<http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=11325>
>
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