INS arrests foreign students in San Diego in first-of-its-kind crackdown

The Associated Press ^ | 12/12/01 | BEN FOX

[grimalkin]

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Immigration authorities arrested 10 people in the San Diego area Wednesday in a first-of-its-kind crackdown on Middle Eastern students suspected of violating the terms of their visas by not being in school.

None of those arrested is suspected of involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks, authorities said.

[Publius6961]

"This type of activity, people defaulting on their visas, is not particular to the Arab community," said Mohammed Nasser, the director of the San Diego chapter of the Muslim-American Society...

Good thing this loser is not interpreting our laws.
Novel idea though: catch all the lawbreakers at once or else it's discriminatory?
Personally, I like discriminatory.

[Publius6961]

Kind of makes you wonder what they did before they started enforcing our laws.

That's easy.
They were thinking of creative means to make a 2-year legal (european, non-African non-Asian) immigration process last 5 years...

[abigail2]

Thanks for possting this...it's a beginning....

[willyone]

According to some Iraqi Christians I know there has been a population shuffle of Arabs in the San Diego area. Most of the Christian Iraqis no longer run the various stores. Mostly Muslims now. They were surprised by the changeover. As told to me.

[Hillary 666]

Watch for ACLU lawsuits to follow.

Yep. It's time to put a crackdown on them, too.

[jackbill]

"This type of activity, people defaulting on their visas, is not particular to the Arab community," said Mohammed Nasser,

I agree with Nasser. If we can't arrest all rapists, we shouldn't arrest any. If we can't arrest all murderers, we shouldn't arrest any. We need to be fair.

Sure.

[oiljake]

I beleave I have the perfect solution that should make all parties happy even the ACLU take each illegle back to their country give them a old inter tube tye a bloody beef steak around their neck and set them adrift if they float back we will consiter letting back in the country fair is fair

[WriteOn]

woo hooo!

[lawgirl]

Authorities began compiling a database of the nearly 600,000 foreign students at U.S. colleges and universities after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. But that effort languished amid opposition from school officials who believed it would hurt recruitment and be seen as intrusive.

I think we have found the original problem- letting our universities dictate our INS policy. I hope the INS is getting their act straight finally.

[FreePaul]

And what is the INS doing about the "foreigners" who never bothered to get their visas before coming here and taking up permanent status?

[Henchman]

The Aslobs are right let's arrest them all. When the ACLU arrives, arrest them and send them to whatever country wants them - well maybe they would be welcome in a Taliban hideout.

[RWG]

None of those arrested is suspected of involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks, authorities said.

And why not? The more I hear every day on the lamestream news about this or that arab and his history of anti-semitism and anti-Americanism why aren't everyone of them deported yesterday?

[Abn1508]

However, the story about the 60k home security system is a net myth.

Clarification alert: I don't recall the price-tag, but he _did_ have a security system installed, quite a pricey one at the time. It included high, barb-wire topped fences, a video system at the gate, powered gates...

This was all before any of that was considered in any way "standard" and it cost nearly his yearly pay.

I know that it was the fact because I remember watching the committee hearings and thought his comeback on it was priceless. The "net rumor" is that he said he was protecting his family against Osama Bin Laden. But he actually said "Abu Nidal." I watched it live on C-SPAN.

[KC_Conspirator]

That makes sense. You are the second person I know who actually watched the hearings. My brother is the other one - he was grounded for a good amount of the summer and saw all the hearings. All the liberal media was talking about impeachment and so on while the rest of the country could have cared less.

[VOA]

Authorities began compiling a database of the nearly 600,000 foreign students at
U.S. colleges and universities after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
But that effort languished amid opposition from school officials who believed
it would hurt recruitment and be seen as intrusive.

Sounds like some university bureaucrats that were prominent in this opposition
should get their mugs plastered across television.

These are probably the same people who not only want 200% tracking of every gun
owned by every law-abiding citizen...but track students? Oh dear me, we could never do that!