Employees arrested at D.C. airports

MSNBC NewsALert ^ | 4/23/02 | Pete Williams

[luvbach1]

Why weren't agents making mass arrests at the Pro-Terrorist/anti-American rallies in DC on the weekend? Ashcroft and Ridge have asked us to report suspicious persons and activities. Such persons and activities abounded at the demonstrations. Nobel Peace Prize winner, Helen Caldicott, called the US a rogue state, dismissed Bush as illegitimate, branded Cheney and Rumsfeld as wicked, defended North Korea and Iraq, and condemned the War against Terror as racist. Other speakers called for the Infatada to be globalized and brought to the steps of the white house, a clear call to sedition. Are there no grounds for detaining and investigating at least some of these people? How long are Ashcroft/Ridge/Bush going to allow this subversion to go on in the name of the exercise of free speech?

[eccl1212]

The truth?

the FBI has KNOWN about these folks for months... in the interim there have been numerous background checks and phone taps and investigations of these people's KNOWN ASSOCIATES which needed to be catalogued and surveilled FIRST...

An illegal "screener" at the airport can always be BLACKMAILED... and you can bet they have been. That is the first thing a terrorist would look for... identify the vulnerabilities and the vulnerable workers in key positions. The FBI and other Alphabets have without a doubt been checking these VULNERABLE illegal employees out via their bank accounts, their phone records their cell phone transactions and credit card purchases as well as any other items of interest. This has been necessary to make sure that all the terrorists KNOWN associates, recruited vulnerable associates and blackmail targets can NOW also be screened, traced, backgrounded, and potentially arrested/prosecuted as well. It is ongoing and unravelling as we speak.

ONE big city at a time. OR several... It's a surgical operation... as this cancer apparently runs very deep... and we risk killing the patient if we remove too much, too fast... It would be a foolish error made in haste of the moment, if we were to deal with the symptom and entirely miss the metastises that are hidden and ready to go "active" in the event of a mass roundup.... a stitch in time saves nine... later.

[SBeck]

Three questions: did they also arrest the employers for hiring these illegals and since there are now vacancies for those positions will the companies hire U.S. citizens? (Or will they just get another boatload of illegals to replace the ones deported or arrested)?

[SBeck]

Good questions. Should we abandon the first amendment while we're at it too?

[NetValue]

"Many of the suspects have out-of-status visas, a violation of immigration rules."

Employees at US airports should be US citizens.

[Young Rhino]

I wonder if the gals at the Victoria Secret store at Reagan National were arrested. For some reason, I've never really looked much at their faces. :-)

[anniegetyourgun]

Did anybody listen to Ashcroft live? I thought everyone on FR hated his guts.

Glad to hear of arrests, though it's a bit unnerving to know that I just passed through one of those airports 10 days ago....

[Dengar01]

When isn't Mexico mad at us

Who gives a damn about Mexico.

[Betty Jo]

Argenbright Security has the contracts for a lot of airports for security.

Not so well known is the fact that Argenbright is owned by Securicor.

Securicor has a branch at DUBAI, owned by an Arab!

Excuse me, but it is my allegation that terrorists working there stole passes, code, maps,ID's etc to help in their attacks!It is my thought that many of these arrested today are part of the terrorism deal!

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

WHY DIDN'T THEY ARREST THE ONES WHO HIRE THEM?

[prophetic]

so its OK then to have ILLEGAL non-citizens working in highly sensitive areas pertaining to national security?

I would tell them to **** ** ***** **** *** **** ***!!

[dr_who]

Now, are these people they're arresting federal employees yet?

[Marine Inspector]

so its OK then to have ILLEGAL non-citizens working in highly sensitive areas pertaining to national security?

No it is not, and I never implied that it was!!!

[luvbach1]

No, don't abandon the 1st amendement, just don't let it be used as a cover for seditious activity.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

F MEXICO SEND EM PACKING BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM along with other illeagles

[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

Brand their foreheads and send them home - if we see them again they are fair game for anyone to shoot on sight.

[Bigg Red]

I would classify anyone crossing/sneaking across our borders illegaly as an enemy...

Works for me.