Friday, January 9, 2009

So this is what ABC-TV is saluting with new series on the heroics of U.S. Homeland Security staff?

The Boston Globe reports the following sickening story concerning an Immigration, Customs and Enforcement officer under the Department of Homeland Security.

The rape of the 11-year-old child by the agent is nauseating and defies the image of Homeland Security agents as heroes in how they have brutalized immigrants of all nationalies and colors in supposedly enforcing this nation's laws. Pastors have died in ICE detention. Whole towns have had their economies destroyed while human beings have been denied due process by makeshift, federal kangaroo courts.

ABC-TV is going to start a series this month saluting Homeland Security. Send a message to ABC and Homeland Security by not watching.

Here is the story, sent out by a dedicated advocate, Shuya Ohno. He got The NY Times' attention about the torture of a pregnant Hispanic woman by Nashville authorities under the heinous 287g program. So when Shuya sends a story out, it should be read:

A federal immigration officer from Hull was accused today of having sex with an 11-year-old child while in Brazil to deport immigrants, taking photographs of the act.

Michael Clifford, a 44-year-old immigration agent, was arrested today after a grand jury indicted him on a charge of possessing child pornography. He was ordered held without bail pending a hearing Tuesday. If convicted, he faces 15 to 30 years in jail, plus a fine of up to $250,000 and supervised release.

A woman at Clifford’s house in Hull declined to comment.

Clifford allegedly picked up the child late at night at an outdoor cafĂ© in Rio de Janeiro while there on official business in March, according to the US Attorney’s office in Boston. He allegedly returned to his hotel, had sex with the child and photographed the child involved in sexual acts.

The hotel’s security camera showed Clifford entering the hotel with the child late at night and then sending the child out of the hotel the next morning, the US Attorney’s office said.

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