Italian Citizen Detained For Ten Days in the United States
By: Tommy Elder, Jr.
Perhaps due to the alerts over worldwide terror- an Italian citizen spent ten days in detention or under the custody of the United States Immigration and Custom Enforcement. Nina Bernstein of the New York Times writes that Domenico Salerno attempted to enter the United States on April 29, 2008 through Washington`s Dulles International Airport. He was denied entry.
Following hours of interrogation- ICE also refused to allow Mr. Salerno to return to Italy. Mr. Salerno journeyed to a rural Virginia jail in the custody of the Immigration and Custom Enforcement where he stayed for over ten days without a charge or legal representation.
According to Ms. Bernstein, the Coopers- Mr. Demenico Salerno`s American friends and their elite neighbors- employed many legal avenues to access the end of Mr. Salerno`s nightmare.
Purportedly, `The border patrol officer said to my face that Domenico said he would be killed if he went back to Italy,` Ms. Cooper related.
From his stay with ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Mr. Salerno traveled in ICE`s custody to Pamunkey Regional Jail in Hanover, Virginia where he lived with roughly seventy-five men. Some asylum seeking inmates indicated that their stay there already total a year.
As a means of assisting Domenic Salerno- the Coopers asked for the help of Virginia`s United States Senator John Warner and two past immigration prosecutors.
After Ms. Caitlin Cooper wrote to the New York Times and following a Times reporter`s investigation- within a day ICE interceded and secured transportation for Domenico Salerno to travel to Dulles International Airport in Washington, D. C. On Friday, May 16, 2008- Domenico Salerno flew to Rome.
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