Posted on 10/25/2001 2:52:11 PM PDT by FresnoDA
September 27, 2001, Thursday
A NATION CHALLENGED: IMMIGRATION; Suspects in Hijackings Exploited Loopholes in Immigration Policy
By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO and ROBERT PEAR
Source: The New York Times
Section: National Desk
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Abstract
Hijackers who flew airliners into World Trade Center and Pentagon exploited immigration system that critics contend is riddled with loopholes and that is geared to ease the way for commerce, whether in form of tourism, business or study; experts on terrorism say security precautions often take back seat to pressure from industry, concerns of neighboring governments and even bureaucratic rivalries in US government; say sheer volume of daily border crossings--300 by land from Mexico alone--make exclusion of all foreign terrorists impossible; photo (M)
Five Israelis Held In New York |
| October 25, 2001 Five young Israelis are "on the verge of collapse," according to family members, as their incarceration in New York on charges relating to the Bin Laden attacks continues. They were arrested on Sept. 11, only hours after the World Trade Center attack, on charges of "plotting to blow up" a New York bridge. |
And make it SNAPPY!!!!!!!!!!
FUTURE WIDOWS OF AMERICA: WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN
The enemy is in this country right now. And any terrorists who are not already here are free to immigrate. The government has been doing an excellent job rounding up suspects from the last two attacks. But what about the next attack? We thought there was only one murderous Islamic cell in America the last time, too.Congress has authority to pass a law tomorrow requiring aliens from suspect countries to leave. As far as the Constitution is concerned, aliens, which is to say non-citizens, are here at this country's pleasure. They have no constitutional right to be here.
Communicate! Let the Sons of....
'Arab terrorists' crossing border: Middle Eastern illegals find easy entrance into U.S. from Mexico
WND POLL
Why is U.S. government taking little action to secure its borders?
Congress Still Won't Stop Illegal Immigration Democrats have not dropped their opposition to stopping illegal immigration, with troops or without. Complaining that Democratic efforts to make immigration into the United States easier have been complicated by the attacks, a Democratic Senate aide told the Washington Post, "Obviously what happened is going to make our job harder."
International Terrorism and Immigration Policy House Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims
Hearing on International Terrorism and Immigration Policy
January 25, 2000
Good morning. Before I begin my prepared comments, I would like to take a moment to express my deepest appreciation to you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing, and, equally important, for standing up to the orchestrated campaign to stop me from appearing. Because of the investigative work I have carried out as a journalist and investigator in exposing the presence of militant Islamic fundamentalists and Middle Eastern terrorists in the United States (see attached bio), I have been the subject of a sustained campaign of vilification, defamation and even a threat to my life during the past five years by militant Islamic organizations operating as self-anointed representatives of the larger Muslim population, whom they decidedly do not represent.
U.S. Law Says Membership in Terrorist Group,Or Advocacy of Terror, No Bar to Immigration
A 1990 U.S. immigration law, sponsored by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D.-Mass.), instructs State Department employees that "mere" membership in a terrorist organization or advocacy of acts of terrorism should not exclude foreigners from receiving U.S. immigration visas.
Under the law as it is written, someone who belongs to a Middle Eastern terrorist group and has publicly stated a desire that the World Trade Center towers be blown up cannot, on those grounds alone, be denied permission to legally enter the United States as a prospective citizen.
Principles for turning the tide on illegal immigration Based on the views of more than two dozen INS agents and former INS officials, NumbersUSA has compiled a list of principles that these people believe would turn the tide on illegal immigration in the United States. Although many of the people consulted by NumbersUSA did not know each other, they provided remarkably similar ideas and optimism about how to make the United States once again a nation where the rule of law prevails in terms of who has a right to be a participating member of the national community. As a whole, the INS sources did not doubt that the flow of illegal immigration would slow and many present illegal aliens would begin to go back to their home countries if the following principles were put into effect.
Not to mention the certain long-term conflict we will have with Muslims in this country as they try to assert their religion barbaric, twisted, warring cult into our way of life. Sorry for any confusion.
I'd like to know when is enough for our spineless Muslim appeasing government. It's like we have to wait until these perverted murderous aliens perpetrate another 2 or 3 massacres like 9/11 until they find the spine to deport them. --- WRhine
I already have sent letters to my local politicos and plan on sending many more to the other politicos in DC. Yes, it doesn't go much good just preaching to the choir here. We all have to make our outrage known to the often spineless decision-makers who can do something about getting these Muslim visitors and their terrorist cells out of our country for good.
I would guess the INS has a headquarters in the Federal buildings of major cities.
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