US human rights activist urges Washington not to pursue dictators’ doctrine

New York, Dec 7, IRNA – Head of a US human rights group accused US administration here Monday of pursuing dictators’ doctrine, urging Washington to regulate policies in accordance with human rights’ rule.

The Executive Director of Border Action Network, Jennifer Allen, a well known US human rights activist who mainly focuses on immigrants rights added in an interview with IRNA correspondent in New York: “The US rarely objects to the breaching of human rights cases and the minorities’ rights either in US soil, or in US prisons around the globe."

Allen reiterated, “We hereby ask the US administration to adopt policies to arrest and put to trial those who annoy the immigrants and create real hard times for them.”

She added, “Presently we have an open file at the Intercontinental US Commission against the US Administration. The file is against the US Administration’s lack of action against the illegal groups that try to enforce laws illegally and waywardly.”

Allen said, “The US Administration must arrest and put to trial the members of such groups on charge of breaching the human rights of the immigrants.”

IRNA asked the top human rights activist whether the US administrations have ever issued arrest warrants against the violators of the human rights in US soil. She replied, “No I don’t think so. At best we can say that the US administrations rarely if ever do so.”

Allen further reiterated that “there are many human rights organizations throughout the US that try to make the US administrations that the observation of the human rights inside the US soil is as important as the other issues and that there is a dire need for the ratification of laws against their breaching in different states’ parliaments.”

IRNA asked whether by the breaching of the human rights in the United States Allen means the lack of political will to arrest and put to trial the members of such wayward groups, or the matter is beyond such limits? And also, what she thinks about the way the US administrations deal with illegal immigrants, and whether the way they are dealt with is in itself breaching of the human rights.

Allen replied to the above-stated questions by saying that “It definitely is. We prepare reports every year titled ‘The Human Rights Status at Arizona-Mexican Borders’ which is inclusive of cased of breaching the human rights such as beating them black and blue, to an extent that it can be easily called torture.”

She added that “all such cases are conducted by local, federal and state US officials near the US borders. The annoying behaviors are not exclusively conducted against the illegal immigrants, as the legal immigrants and even US citizens do not remain intact from them.

“Almost half of the reports we gain are from the legal immigrants, the US citizens and those who have tourist visas. The problem is not restricted to illegal immigrants, but is much broader and an acute violation of the human rights and prestige.”

In reply to another question whether the Border Action Network observes any discrimination between legal and illegal immigrants, or the problems of both groups are dealt with bias-free, Allen said: “We survey the problems of the entire immigrants. Particularly because the immigration laws in Arizona are very insufficient and at cases even wrong.

“Under such laws you can trace one family with an illegal immigrant, a legal immigrant, a US national and a tourist, all living under the same roof, which means if the illegal immigrants are deported in many cased families are destroyed!”/ to be continued**