Immigration and Naturalization Service
 Immigration and Naturalization Service     | |
|---|---|
| Successor | • USCIS • USICE • USCBP |
| Formation | 1993 |
| Extinction | 2003 |
| Headquarters | Washington DC, U.S. |
Concentration camps
In 1987 a secret contingency plan titled "Alien Terrorists and Undesirables: A Contingency Plan", for rounding up thousands of legal alien residents of eight specified nationalities were exposed. The plan was leaked in connection with a lawsuit. The nations were Libya, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan and Morocco.
Emergency legal measures would be deployed - rescinding the right to bond, claiming the privilege of confidential evidence, excluding the public from deportation hearings, among others. In its final pages, the memo carefully planned out a procedure to detain and intern thousands of aliens while they awaited what would presumably become a mass deportation, in Oakdale, Louisiana. The plan had specifications for tents and fencing materials, cot measurements and plumbing requirements.[1]
The memo was created by the discreet Group IV of the INS' Alien Border Control Committee. In 1987, after the memo’s existence was briefly exposed, the ABC Committee was promptly terminated, the subgroup and the plan abandoned.[1]
Toward the end of the document, an enigmatic military plan makes an appearance, punctuating the clipped prose and smeared typeface with a conspicuous ellipse: "Upon identification and activation of a military location, most of the various components of the South Florida Plan would then be operative," related to Cuban immigrants.[1]
