Posted on 02/16/2011 9:37:15 PM PST by SmithL
A Palestinian blocked from joining his family in the Bay Area four years ago after being stopped at San Francisco International Airport with material on the Islamist group Hamas in his computer can be deported as a potential terrorist, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
The man's lawyer said, however, that the United States has not yet found a country that will accept him.
Tareq Abufayad, then 24, was returning from college in Egypt to join his family in San Mateo four years ago today when he was questioned at the airport by a customs agent who said Abufayad had a "confrontational" attitude.
A search of his computer hard drive produced what an agent described as "jihadist materials," including some that referred to Hamas. The group governs Gaza, where Abufayad lived, and the U.S. government considers it a terrorist organization.
Abufayad has been in immigration jails ever since. He said he had never joined or supported Hamas and that the items in his computer concerned current events in Gaza, some of which he hadn't read.
But the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said immigration officials had reasonably concluded, based on testimony by a Department of Homeland Security expert, that Abufayad was likely to engage in or support terrorism if allowed into the United States.
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The 9th got one right.
Not one more sympathizer needs to be admitted to this country.
They don’t have our values, or the best interests of our country at heart.
And why not? It’s time to deport all those that preach subversion of the US. Why is that so hard to judge?
If he eventually makes it to San Francisco, he’d be right at home with other lunatics who also hate America while they live IN America.
Does the North Atlantic [from altitude] qualify as a country?
Maybe not, but Cuba qualifies IMHO.
Yeah, and I’m amazed.
In Cuber, he'd probably get his own seaside mansion, wherein to entertain the Old Man and the Sea. Not suitable.
Just pick up the whole family and put them in a leaking rubber dingy off the coast of iran.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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