In fact, the majority of people deported through S-Comm have either committed only a minor offense or no crime at all.
The question that must be answered is this: the boy was unarmed, had committed only a minor crime, was running away and posed very little threat to anyone, so why on earth was it necessary to incapacitate him with a potentially deadly taser?
That should give the vote to more than a million Floridians, many of whom committed only minor crimes many years before.
The Homeland Security Department's own data show that more than half of those deported under the program have no criminal records or committed only minor crimes.
Mr. Travis, of John Jay, said that many of the young people who were sent to juvenile prisons had committed only minor offenses and should not have been in prisons in the first place.
The local programs would, for instance, provide more nuanced methods of dealing with thousands of nonviolent convicts who are automatically sent back to prison, at a cost of $27,000 a year per prisoner, for committing only minor or technical violations of their parole or probation.
Although most of these children commit only minor, petty crimes, the tendency is to lock them up – as a punishment and as an education or rehabilitation measure.
Delegates participating from Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, Kiribati, Indonesia, Timor-Leste and the Solomon Islands will emphasize that although most of these children commit only minor, petty crimes, the tendency is to lock them up – as a punishment and as an education or rehabilitation measure.
Morton Abramowitz, the head of the International Crisis Group, an independent conflict-prevention organization, and the journalist Samantha Power put it more tersely: "Major and minor powers alike are committed only to stop killing that harms their national interests".
The Chicago-based National Immigrant Justice Center, which filed a federal class action lawsuit over the DHS program this month, reports that as many of 80percentt of those living in Illinois who have been deported under Secure Communities had either never committed a crime or had only committed a minor traffic offense.
