Roz Gruben and the INS

[Guest guest]

well, here goes nothing.

 

I will definitely be on the outside looking in after the group reads this email

but I have a few things to say. If you are looking for something politically

correct look elsewhere.

 

There isn't enough information in Ms. Gruben's e-mail to know the exact reason

she was deported, or even what document she was traveling with. If you don't

know immigration law you can't say whether her deportation was justified.

Simple.

 

I don't now what kind of verbal abuse was heaped on her or what not, but being

fingerprinted is standard procedure for someone being deported. Even LEGAL

immigrants have to be fingerprinted! Nothing demeaning about the process itself,

its a legal requirement and a valid procedure used to document foreigner

visiting the United States.

 

As far as the comment that her luggage was " raped " , I feel that is an insult to

every woman (and man, for that matter) who has actually been sexually assualted.

Its a matter of course for luggage to be searched, inside and out, anytime you

are detained for an immigration or customs violation, or SUSPECTED violation.

The chemical that was rubbed on everything is likely for the purpose of

detecting explosives. You have to remember, nobody there knows Ms. Gruben from

the proverbial Eve. Just because she is a popular person to the raw movement

doesn't mean anything to them. And it shouldn't. People forget that visitors to

the United State have to prove they have the right to enter, not the other way

around.

 

The hyerbole in the e-mail was annoying. Terrible treatment? Did they shake a

coke bottle and stick it up her nose? How about slapping her around with a

rubber hose? Detain her for days in a cell without ANY outside contact? I'm

certain nobody laid a hand on her outside of holding her hand to take

fingerprints.

 

Talk about immigrants? How about those who are raped and beaten (literally)

trying to get to the United States from places like Guatemala and Honduras? That

doesn't happen to them in the US - it happens in Mexico, on the river, sometimes

by bandits sometimes by Mexican officers. How about being deported and going

back to a stinking hut in the middle of some colonia in the middle of nowhere to

eat beans and tortillas (yes, COOKED) with nary a piece of fruit in sight?

 

And to the one who wrote that this is all because of some kind conspiracy by the

meat board and the industrial complex?? COME ON PEOPLE, GET REAL!

 

I sincerely hope that Ms. Gruben obtains some kind of waiver and is eventually

allowed to return to the US legally. From everything I've read concerning her,

she is a great asset to the raw foods movement and it would be a shame to

prevent people on this side of the pond from ever hearing her speak. But the

fact is, on the great scale of human injustice, this isn't. This is just one

more person caught up in a legal, bureacratic morass, of which a part was surely

of their own making. It only matters to most of you because its someone you

know. People are detained and deported EVERY DAY. How many of you are out there

protesting and complaining about Guanajuato Joe and Jane Chen's civil rights and

opportunities? Please let me know if you. I might owe YOU an apology.

 

Sincerely

Raw1811

 

 

 

 

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