Immigrants decry registration policy - Islam Group: "Muslims are now guilty until proven innocent"

Associated Press ^ | December 22, 2002 | Associated Press Staff

[MeekOneGOP]

Only 23 remained in custody Friday. Their names came up in law enforcement databases in connection with various crimes, Mr. Martinez said.

"Where's the beef?"

[exit82]

Cry me a river. For the last 35 years, terrorist acts have been committed against the US by Muslim males. We have a right to demand they register, since they have been one of the biggest offenders of our immigration laws in the past by ignoring visa limits,etc.

These aren't even citizens in many cases. Three thousand dead people on 9/11 was too high a price to pay for our own stupidity--so to register they will go. Tough.

As for Jane Harmen,D-Redondo Beach, you should be ignored like the sycophant you are. You are the setback to the war on terrorism, not this registration process. Idiot.

[varon]

"Muslims are now guilty until proven innocent," said Sabiha Khan of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. (my emphasis)

I'll agree with that ;-)

[dep]

um, no. not guilty until proven innocent. guilty would require their being jailed and then executed.

dep

[muawiyah]

Once again Inouye misses the point. Not all the JAs went to the concentration camps. For example, virtually no Hawaiian Japanese went. On the other hand, some Japanese went straight to jail, both from Hawaii and from Continental US areas (and some of them were comparable to the guys just now picked up in this INS action).

All JAs West of the Mississippi River were dragged off to concentration camps by the Democratic Party. Their property was then sold at tax auctions to "insiders". Some believe that was the whole purpose of the exercise.

Now, when it comes to the Iranians, there are 600,000 of them in California alone (according to news reports). Less than 1/6 of 1% were arrested. This is in no way comparable to the 100% of JAs West of the Mississippi! None of the JAs who were sent to camps were lawbreakers either, unlike the Iranians and other Middle-Easterners INS picked up. The JA community has always been the most lawabiding in American history. For a number of decades there were no JAs who had even been charged with a felony, and few with a misdemeanor.

Neither Inouye nor his Moslem buddies there have the slightest understanding of the enormity of the crime committed by the US government against the Japanese-Americans in CONUS West of the Mississippi. Else they would not compare the plight of Iranian lawbreakers to that of young children shipped off to Roosevelt's concentration camps.

The Senator can talk the JA talk, but he didn't walk the JA walk. Folks should honor his service during WWII, but his current allegiances raise serious questions about the soundness of his mind.

[BOBTHENAILER]

In a letter Thursday, Rep. Jane Harman, D-Redondo Beach, asked acting INS Commissioner Michael Garcia to hold a series of town hall meetings to explain the detentions, which she said could "set back our nation's fight against terrorism."

I really, really hope the RATs try to capitalize on this non-issue and continue their baseless policy of attempting to brand Republicans as racists.

Good post.

[DumpsterDiver]

"Muslims are now guilty until proven innocent"

Hey, Muslims, if you think that's bad please realize that Mexican nationals are above the law when it comes to being here as undocumented, paper-less, visa-less, out of status, hard-working "immigrants" doing the jobs you won't do.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Agree. How long can he be a victim ?

[OldSmaj]

"Muslims are now guilty until proven innocent," said Sabiha Khan...

Sounds good to me.

Now, here's a quarter. Call someone that gives a...well, you know the rest.

[harpseal]

None of these were citizens as citizens were not required to register. These are aliens in the United States of America and those who were detained were detained because they were not in full compliance with the laws. If anyone had a problem with their visas they should have already been in full contact with the INS and already have cleared up the problem or left the USA while they waited.

[Diana Rose]

Inshallah = Sh!t Happens

[Cachelot]

Innocent? How can illegal aliens be "innocent"?

[Vigilanteman]

"People are selected on the basis of their ethnicity without regard to any particular crime being committed," Ken Inouye of the Japanese American Citizens League said Friday.

I'm personally acquainted with more than a few Japanese Americans who are disgusted with what the JACL has become-- a mouthpiece of the ulraleft.

Also, I hate to break Mr. Inouye's bubble, but maybe he ought to take a trip back to his anscestral homeland and see how the immigration service there operated. Every foreign national, other than those on short-term visitor's visas, is required to register and carry an ID card. Those overstaying their visas are subject to fine, imprisonment and/or immediate deportation whether or not they've committed other crimes. Profiling is prevalent. A white engineer from the west, for example, get through an airport line much faster than one from the Middle East. A Taiwanese girl with 200,000 yen in traveler's checks get through a line a lot quicker than a Thai girl with 40,000 yen in cash.

One visible result of this policy is that you can still show up to an airport 20 minutes before a flight and get on it.

[Vigilanteman]

The Senator can talk the JA talk, but he didn't walk the JA walk.

Please do me a favor and don't confuse this spokesperson with the real Senator, Dan Inoue of Hawaii (who could win re-election after he passes away).

[Republic of Texas]

" "Muslims are now guilty until proven innocent," said Sabiha Khan of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "

Yes, they are. Starting with you Sabiha. Until proven otherwise, I consider you a terrorist and a traitor. How do you suppose I came to that conclusion?

[Amerigomag]

I love liberal thinking. Because liberals have blocked implementaion of US immigration proceedures and federal law they now feel they now have a right to criticize "selective enforcement" in the face of a clear and present danger.

Go figure.

The obvious solution is to enforce the law uniformily. Alas the argument is that we have neither the resources (championed by both the left and the right) nor the need (a cause celeb for the left) to do this.

[MHGinTN]

"Muslims are now guilty until proven innocent" Sounds prudent to me, in this war against Islamic terrorists. We did the same at the start of WW II when the Japanese hit Pearl. After the war things went back to Constitutional mandates. If Islamic people in America don't like it, they should blame their Islamic fanatic leaders.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

DEPORT THEM NOW BEFORE THEY KILL US AGAIN!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Welcome to President George Dubya Bush's
Homeland Penitentiary

Where everyone is a suspect (except Muslims)
"We've got your number"