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Immigration

Dec. 11, 2009

Chinese Man Says He Was Drugged And Deported

Two years after Homeland Security officials agreed to first obtain a court order before forcibly drugging immigrants who are fighting deportation, a Chinese man says he was involuntarily sedated and put on a plane back to China.

By Sandra Hernandez

Daily Journal Staff Writer

Two years after Homeland Security officials agreed to first obtain a court order before forcibly drugging immigrants who are fighting deportation, a Chinese man says he was involuntarily sedated and put on a plane back to China.

"An officer told me to take four pills," Qian Ding said Wednesday in a telephone interview from China. "A female nurse injected in me in the...

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