[Huck]

that Muslims have been unfairly targeted

Good.

[MinorityRepublican]

that Muslims have been unfairly targeted

What a shame.

[NeoCaveman]

A good start, but still a drop in the bucket.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

What has particularly attracted attention is that the detentions and deportations have been done in secret; and critics allege that Muslims have been unfairly targeted.

Maybe they're onto something. I think we should deport ALL illegals and that might help the critics feel better.

[joesnuffy]

So they hop right back on a boat or plane for mexico or canada and either they or their replacement is back in the good ole USA in 6 months time...sneaking right past air port security or "buy"passing immigration who are too busy feeling up some 80 yr old grandmum to pay much attention to terrorists...er I mean muslims

[Mitchell]

Ping.

[TADSLOS]

The whole exercise, including payment for the chartered jet to Islamabad, came to around $500,000.

Please tell me that it came out of the State Department's Visa Office budget.

[Dog Gone]

Bye bye, dudes. I hope we send another few thousand to join you.

[ironman]

This is not breaking news. John McCaslin in the Washington Times Inside the Beltway makes fun of the Post's description as a "secret" deportation that was reported by his paper many days ago.

[bkwells]

See ya!! And don't come back!

[Republic]

What has particularly attracted attention is that the detentions and deportations have been done in secret; and critics allege that Muslims have been unfairly targeted.

Ahhhhhhh...poor inconvenienced babys! Breaking their hosts country's laws and having to go back home! How, well, TERRIBLE for them!

Perhaps some of the people, innocent of wrongful intentions, will start cracking down on their own brethren, like they should all be doing over there in the Arab nations, as they start to fell the brunt of allowing genuine cowards, terrorists as it were, to flourish within their own nations.

Maybe this crackdown will help them realize we don't LIKE having terrorists here!

[Psycho_Bunny]

Why did we pay to charter a plane?

We should have pushed them into the Atlantic with some "Water Wings" and told them to swim home.

[b4its2late]

and critics allege that Muslims have been unfairly targeted.

awwwhhhh ...... TDB.

[LurkedLongEnough]

The whole exercise, including payment for the chartered jet to Islamabad, came to around $500,000.

It seems like this statement was meant to drum up opposition to the deporations. Give em a rubber raft.

[KSCITYBOY]

131 fewer votes for al gore.

[FreeTally]

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been very vocal on this forum in criticizing the administration for not doing this. I have to give credit where credit is due and say, GOOD JOB(finally)!

[Tis The Time''s Plague]

critics allege that Muslims have been unfairly targeted.

What's important is that they've been targeted.

[dennisw]

UNBELIEVABLE!

Costs ~$4,500 to deport someone back to Asia. No wonder we rarely deport anyone. Price would be sky high. Can anyone get a quote on how much it costs to deport someone just to Guatemala? :0)

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

DEPORT EM ALL!

[Amerigomag]

In the mid to late 1980s Pakistan undertook a massive effort to improve their technical understanding of weapons related issues.

Their chief means was through the enrollment of undergarduate and graduate students into prestigeous American and European technical universities. These "students" would then report their findings back to Pak intelligence.

These "graduate" students would frequently overstay their American visas and slip into employment in the American military/industrial complexes. When caught or when they had obtained enough cutting edge knowledge they would return to Pakistan and work in the Pak defense industry.

To his credit 43's administartion is the first to identify and stop this quazi legal espionage.

As anecdotal evidence my son, who just graduated from one of these schools, reports that 5 years ago there were 10 to 15 Pak nationals attending his school within his major (AE). This year only one was in the graduating class and this individual returned to Pakistan without attending commencement.