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...military have led to increasingly frequent and brutal violations of human rights. Although martial law was technically lifted in January 1981, this development has had little real effect on the political situation in the Philippines. All of the emergency powers assumed by Marcos, including the authority to detain preventively "public order" suspects, have been collected into a National Security Code and reinstated by presidential decree...
...Reagan Administration as part of its effort to discourage illegal immigration into the U.S. (Almost 1 million illegal aliens were caught in 1981, and nobody knows how many managed to enter undetected.) Under the Reagan policy, the Justice Department's Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) began to detain undocumented aliens, who had been apprehended as they entered the U.S., at federal prisons and abandoned military bases in Florida, Louisiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Texas, New York and Puerto Rico. Previously, immigration policy had been to release such illegal aliens on parole while the courts examined their appeals for political asylum...
...military rule, is hardly noticeable. The tanks are gone from the streets, the soldiers are back in their barracks, and television newscasters have hung up their ill-fitting military uniforms. Indeed, the most vivid reminder that Poles live in a state where the authorities can-and occasionally do-frisk, detain and arrest on sight is what cannot be seen any more: the once ubiquitous Solidarity pins on coat lapels and the political slogans that seemed to be scrawled on every available wall. But if the shock and fear of the first dark days of martial law have now passed...
...better worker, a loyal citizen." One woman in the congregation disobeyed; she draped a banner over the balcony that read, "We have more than 150 prisoners for the work of the gospel." She was quietly escorted out of the church by several men in plain clothes and was presumably detained for questioning. Asked his opinion of the incident later, Graham replied: "We detain people in the United States if we catch them doing things wrong...
...Some people are detained for all kinds of reasons. We detain people in the U.S. if we catch them doing something wrong...