Baby Held by Immigration Officials in Locked Room Dies

The Honolulu Advertiser
February 12, 2008

A 14-day-old infant traveling here for heart surgery died at Honolulu International Airport on Friday after he, his mother and a nurse were detained by immigration officials in a locked room, a lawyer for the boy’s family said.

The Honolulu medical examiner’s office yesterday identified the infant as Michael Futi of Tafuna, American Samoa’s largest village, which is located on the east coast of Tutuila Island. Autopsy findings have been deferred.

According to police, the child died at 5:50 a.m. It is unknown why immigration officials detained the mother, the nurse and the child.

Scott Ishikawa, a spokesman for the state Department of Transportation, said the child went into respiratory failure while in the customs office, which is located near the baggage claims area of the overseas terminal. Airport paramedics were called about 6:10 a.m., he said.

The group arrived on a Hawaiian Airlines flight that landed at 5:30 a.m.

“We were later told the baby was coming here for heart surgery,” Ishikawa said.

Attorney Rick Fried said the child had come to Hawai’i from American Samoa for heart surgery.

The boy’s family plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit, Fried said.

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  1. Aaron W. on February 13th, 2008

    Sickening, but no worse than watching old people die from heat stroke on live television in New Orleans. Staff abandoning the nursing homes. The cops blocking the only escape route; by foot, out of the city, with shotguns and M-4 rifles. The priority gun confiscations, while they glorified that yuppie Sean Penn with his pump action on MSM. White people are just taking bottled water and diapers, while all the blacks were predatory, thieves, looting liquor stores, and big screen T.V’s. The bodies floating in the streets for weeks, while the dogs and rats ate the ones in supposedly cleared houses. Does our government care about it’s people? The rats eat the eyes out first, it’s the tenderest part, dogs prefer the buttocks. The revolution should have started right then and there. The Army blew those two levies, to save the tourist district from flooding. Period. They did the same thing in the twenties.

  2. Benja S. Sariwatta on February 13th, 2008

    Keep trusting the government. They know what is best for you. I yearn for the day we can just pull out our 500 S&W and blow away thest traitors to the constitution and the people.

  3. ted sizelove jr on February 13th, 2008

    REVOLUTION NOW!!!!!!!!!

  4. Samuel on February 13th, 2008

    Benja, I don’t long for the day I have to blow anyone away. But if faced with no better alternative, I will. Trouble is, they have contigency plans for people like us willing to resist put in place to make sure a great many of us never get the chance…

  5. Wolf Britain on February 13th, 2008

    …And God bless them and help them, and may they win millions of dollars from the the now Fourth-Reich-fascist U.S. government! ROTFLC(rying)OL! :( This is EXTREMELY disgusting, AND THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE(S) FOR IT! If nothing else, the “authorities” could have “erred on the side of caution” and got the infant IMMEDIATELY to a hospital; but they don’t care if a “dark-skinned” baby dies, or whether ANY of us dies regardless of what color we are! THIS is what “America” is coming to?! God help us all!!…

  6. Wolf Britain on February 13th, 2008

    Excuse me, “…And God bless them and help them, and may they win millions of dollars from the the now Fourth-Reich-fascist U.S. government! ROTFC(rying)OL! :( This is EXTREMELY disgusting, AND THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE(S) FOR IT! If nothing else, the “authorities” could have AND SHOULD HAVE “erred on the side of caution” and got the infant IMMEDIATELY to a hospital; but they don’t care if a “dark-skinned” baby dies, or whether ANY of us dies regardless of what color we are! THIS is what “America” is coming to?! God help us all!!…”

  7. John Lee on February 13th, 2008

    1,000s of TSA airport screeners are illegal aliens. At least the border is still wide open for 50-million illegal aliens, with half a billion more on the way ASAP. And I’ve been waiting 11 years for my foreign doctor’s appointment with the Veterans Administration.

  8. Silent Majority on February 16th, 2008

    This is why I don’t travel, unless I drive myself. Keep your guns too.

  9. Leo on February 19th, 2008

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    And there will be nothing you can do about it because A: you will be immediately arrested as a suspected terrorist for not cooperating, and B: even if let go, you might not ever see your child again.

    Stop the insanity…stop flying whenever possible.

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