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Stories from 2002-12-20
"The arrests of hundreds of men who were trying to comply with an Immigration and Naturalization Service edict have underscored problems with a program aimed at tracking visitors from countries that have been used as bases for terrorism." [more]
"Muslim leaders were outraged by the registration programme and arrests, saying that the system would not help uncover terrorists living in the United States." [more]
"Mohajeri and relatives of the hundreds of Middle Eastern men and teens who have been detained in California this week say they feel betrayed by the country that once offered them a safe haven. Some family members fear they even became unknowing accomplices." [more]
"Hundreds of Middle Eastern, Iranian and other men and teenagers were arrested this week after registering with federal immigration officers, and their supporters today charged that the detentions were not catching terrorists but harassing immigrants." [more]
"Civil liberties groups in the United States have called on the justice department to scrap an anti-terror scheme which has led to the detention of hundreds of Muslim men." [more]
"As many as 700 Middle Eastern immigrants, mainly Iranians, have been detained by US officials in southern California after they turned up to register in accordance with the requirements of new residency laws." [more]
"Immigration officers have arrested hundreds of men in the last week after they appeared voluntarily to register, with an unknown number still in custody today. An I.N.S. official in California told family members and immigration lawyers that virtually all of those still held would be released in the next 24 hours, with instructions to report back in 30 to 60 days to complete the registration process." [more]
" 'Los Angles and Orange County are a disaster area. It's a combination of long lines, and the INS zeal. It's clear that the INS is applying the rules and laws with a strictness that is uncommon is other parts of the country.' " [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more] |
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