Monday, May 5, 2008
Your Morning News 5.5.08
Posted by Josh in Australia, Barack Obama, Big Brother, Cyclone, gas tax, hillary clinton, Immigration, Iron Man, Kentucky Derby, Myanmar, NARCs
Reports are starting to come in from Myanmar, where 3000 were killed and 4000 are still missing after a cyclone this past weekend. Cyclone = hurricane, sorta.
The New York Times has a longish piece on the fates of immigrants who have died in while US custody. 66 people have died while in immigration custody from January 2004 to November 2007 – nearly a million people in total have passed through the system. The list was only compiled after congress demanded it and only published when the Times made a Freedom of Information Act request. The absurdity in this one is not so much that people die in US custody (the numbers are low even though some of the stories are chilling), it is the degree to which families have no way to get information. They often don’t fiend out for weeks that a loved one has died and even then they don’t find out the full picture of what happened. Flag this one to read during your coffee break.
The Democratic Primaries, The Kentucky Derby, Iron Man, and Australians after the jump