[IP] USA denies a citizen their right of return

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Edward Hasbrouck <edward@hasbrouck.org>
Date: August 29, 2006 3:13:47 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: (for IP) USA denies a citizen their right of return

The USA has forbidden any airline from transporting to the USA a Mr.  
Jaber
Ismail, a natural-born USA citizen and California resident, not a dual
citizen. They aren't saying they will arrest him or detain him for
questioning on arrival.   They aren't asking the government of the  
country
he has been visiting to arrest him. But they won't let him come home.

There's been some discussion of this as a Constirutional question, but
it's actually much more fundamental as a question of international human
rights law, including treaties which the USA has actually ratified:

http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/001106.html


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Edward Hasbrouck
<edward@hasbrouck.org>
<http://hasbrouck.org>
1130 Treat Ave., San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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consultant to The Identity Project (IDP), a program of the First  
Amendment
Project
<http://www.papersplease.org>

"Congress shall make no law ... abridging ... the right of the people
peaceably to assemble" (U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1)

"Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the
borders
of each state.  Everyone has the right to leave any country,  
including his
own, and
to return to his country." (Universal Declaration of Human Rights,  
Article
13)

"Liberty of movement is an indispensable condition for the free
development of a
person."
(United Nations Human Rights Committee, General Comment No. 27)




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