[Helix]

A couple of quotes from the article:

"Why detain a person who has never been accused of a crime.."

Al-Najjar, who entered the United States from Gaza in 1981 and overstayed his student visa..."

Hummmmmm. Let's see. A violation of immigration law. Sounds like a crime to me.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Go to the first two LINKS I have in post #1. You'll be floored.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

In U.S. on student visa-- In 1995, Al-Najjar was completing his doctorate in industrial management at the University of South Florida, where he taught Arabic as an adjunct professor. A Palestinian refugee born in Gaza and educated in Egypt, he had lived in the United States on a student visa for 10 years.

He worked as a volunteer researcher with his brother-in-law, USF colleague and fellow Palestinian Sami Al-Arian.

The two men were devoted to Al-Arian's brainchild, a USF-sponsored research center called the World and Islam Studies Enterprise, or WISE. Both say the purpose of the center, which operated out of a cramped USF office on a budget of about $20,000 a year, was to bring U.S. and Middle Eastern scholars together to discuss political and economic issues in that part of the world.

[Fiddlstix]

Hummmmmm. Let's see. A violation of immigration law. Sounds like a crime to me.

You Got It!
Ship him out now.

[BunnySlippers]

Let's see. A violation of immigration law. Sounds like a crime to me.

I agree. Time to play hardball with these jerks.

[mlocher]

a few more quotes from the article:

why detain a person who has never been accused of a crime
who has lost 31/2years of his life
and has nowhere to go?

what does the statue of liberty say, "send us your hungry, your poor, your downtrodden and those who have nowhere else to go because they are terrorists..."