Stop the Deportaion of Rama Carty

URGENT CALL TO ACTION

PHONE BLAST AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AND THE CONSUL GENERAL OF HAITI
TO STOP THE ILLEGAL DEPORTATION OF RAMA CARTY FOR SPEAKING OUT ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE

THIS DEPORTATION IS AN OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

Los Fresnos, TX-International Human Rights group, Amnesty International (Sarnata Reynolds,
Policy Director, Refugee & Migrant Rights, Amnesty International USA and Daryl Grisgraber) met with Rama Carty June 02, 2009. Carty is an outspoken prisoner at the Department of Homeland Security/Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Port Isabel Detention Center (PIDC).

On the morning of June 3rd, 2009, Rama Carty requested to meet with Amnesty International for a second time, before he was to be illegally deported. Instead, he was beaten and dragged away as fellow prisoners witnessed this abuse. DHS/ICE illegally transferred him to Louisiana to be deported to Haiti as retaliation for denouncing Human Rights Violations at the Port Isabel Detention Prison. Southwest Workers' Union received a phone call at 6:15am that morning by prisoners notifying them that Rama Carty had been moved for transfer and deportation (which happened around 5am or so). Fellow prisoners were extremely worried for Rama Carty.

Southwest Workers' Union was asked to contact Sarnata Reynolds (Policy Director, Refugee & Migrant Rights, Amnesty International USA) and Daryl Grisgraber and ask them to stop his processing. Rama said Amnesty International should call D.C. (because they are now in charge of his case) to try to stop the transfer. His request was that Amnesty International Reps. request to see him on their visit to PIDC.

Amnesty International representatives told Southwest Workers’ Union that it would take time to process Rama because they had to get a ticket for his travel as well. We repeated that we were told that “he will be transferred today”.

Later, Southwest Workers' Union was told by fellow prisoners that the guards dragged Rama (from the back) and beat him (kicked and punched). According to prisoners who witnessed the assault, there were about 4 officers, and 1 ICE officer (Lt. Saldivar-male) involved.

Rama called later that morning, around 8am to confirm what his fellow prisoners had told us. He said he was being processed for transfer to a detention center in Louisiana and that the the next step was deportation to Haiti, where he would receive no medical care, food, or water (due to the crisis in Haiti). He again requested that Amnesty International representatives Sarnata Reynolds (Policy Director, Refugee & Migrant Rights, Amnesty International USA) and Daryl Grisgraber request to see him to stop the transfer. He said it had to be done as soon as possible because his transfer was already being processed. Southwest Workers' Union relayed this message to the representatives shortly after speaking with Rama Carty.

Rama Carty is a U.S. citizen and has the documentation to prove it. The assault and illegal deportation is an obstruction of justice. He had filed a civil action for Declaratory Judgment by Jury Trial in the District of Massachusetts and had not received a response. The Court of Appeals in the First Circuit dismissed his Emergency Stay of Removal because he did not have the legal resources at the Port Isabel Detention Prison to make it happen. He has gone through 5 attorneys. He cites a U.S. Supreme Court case, NKEN VS. HOLDER, which was decided on April 22, 2009. His due process rights are being violated.

We have to focus on phone blast AIUSA
and the Consul for Haiti in Miami.

Amnesty International USA- phone: (212) 807-8400, Ask to speak to the director of Amnesty International regarding Rama Carty.? If they refuse ask to speak to Sarnata Reynolds.? Explain that Rama Carty was taken as retaliation for speaking to AIUSA and abused and illegally deported while AIUSA reps. were present in the Port Isabel Detention Prison.? They have a reponsability to call DHS and demand that Dora Schriro stop his politically motivation illegal deportation.? His deportation is retaliation for speaking out publically about the Human Rights abuses in the Port Isabel Detention Prison and DHS by deporting him is obstructing justice.? AIUSA must follow through with this responsability.


Consul General of Haiti in Maimi: tel. 305-859-2005, Ask to speak to the Consul General of Haiti.? This is an emergency!? Explain that this is an emergency call regarding the illegal deportaion of Rama Carty to Haiti.? He is not a Haitian citizen nor was he born in Haiti.? Explain that this Rama Carty was taken as retaliation for speaking to AIUSA and abused and illegally deported while AIUSA reps. were present in the Port Isabel Detention Prison.? They have a reponsability to call DHS and demand that Dora Schriro stop his politically motivation illegal deportation.? His deportation is retaliation for speaking out publically about the Human Rights abuses in the Port Isabel Detention Prison and DHS by deporting him is obstructing justice. Haitian Government should NOT issue the travel document for ICE to deport Rama.

Embassy of the Republic of Haiti in Washington DC: tel.? 202.332.4090, Ask to speak to the Consul General of Haiti.? This is an emergency!? Explain that this is an emergency call regarding the illegal deportaion of Rama Carty to Haiti.? He is not a Haitian citizen nor was he born in Haiti.? Explain that this Rama Carty was taken as retaliation for speaking to AIUSA and abused and illegally deported while AIUSA reps. were present in the Port Isabel Detention Prison.? They have a reponsability to call DHS and demand that Dora Schriro stop his politically motivation illegal deportation.? His deportation is retaliation for speaking out publically about the Human Rights abuses in the Port Isabel Detention Prison and DHS by deporting him is obstructing justice. Haitian Government should NOT issue the travel document for ICE to deport Rama.

Support Rama Cartly. Keep those phones busy. Let the them know that they can not silence the voice of the people and that will fight for human rights.