[NormsRevenge]

``I'm a little bit nervous because I have not been through anything like this,'' said Ali Issa, 22, a Lebanese student who stood in line early Friday morning outside the INS office in San Jose, accompanied by his uncle, Sami Deeb of San Jose.

Issa, who has a valid visa and will start his freshman year at Gavilan College in Gilroy later this month, registered without problems Friday.

[jimtorr]

Okay, they're nervous. What of it? I'm nervous too.

[xJones]

The government has defended the crackdown, noting that three of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were in the United States on expired visitor visas. Among those detained last month were a handful of men with outstanding arrest warrants and a few convicted felons who face deportation because of their crimes.

Why, exactly, do we have to defend cracking down on illegals? It should have been done long ago. Illegals have no rights because they are here illegally, what's so hard about that?

[second_half_recovery]

controversial

That good old code word liberal reporters slip into a piece to describe anything they don't agree with.

[norton]

Comments like these convince me that these people do not, and never will, understand what 'democracy; or even 'society' actually mean:

"It shakes the fundamental ways of thinking about democracy and civil liberties,' said Waheed Momand, executive director of the Afghan Coalition."

He thinks that civil liberties mean his kind can break laws, plot to conceal terrorists, ignore the rights of others, and any interference is a denial of 'democracy'? Or perhaps worse, he thinks 'democracy' is a free ride?

I picture these people as being one of only two types, those who were unwilling to take sides in their own country and ran away and those who did take sides and are here in order to advance an islamist agenda. Either way, unless we need them for some specific skill or purpose, and unless they follow the rules and assimilate to OUR society, they should be elsewhere.

[Sparta]

ping!!!

[madfly]

ping

[madfly]

ping

[Cultural Jihad]

National civil rights and immigrant-advocacy groups call the program an ineffective security measure, ...

Any organization which opposes America's efforts at national self-defense should be looked at very closely.

[Eternal_Bear]

Enforce the laws with vigor. If they don't like they can go back to their hellholes.

[MissAmericanPie]

Lawd, we don't want to be guilty of making people that may be here illegally nervous now do we?

[Jhoffa_]

The Immigration and Naturalization Service took hundreds of men from five Middle Eastern countries into custody after the first registration deadline last month, primarily for overstaying their visas or registering late, infractions that rarely resulted in detention until Sept. 11, 2001.

Thank you for posting this.

There was some cornflake on here last night named "Hasan" screaming about his brother being detained and blamed it on us paranoid "yankees" (his first post since registering, btw.)

Asked what happened to out decency and human right's, blah, blah.. I guess America should be the worlds door mat so people like Hasan and his (probably non-existant) "brother" will like us.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

"TURN ON THE NO VACANCY SIGN"!I don't want ANYBODY else coming to this country for any reason.The ones we educate turn that knowledge against us,the ones we feed become stronger to fight us and the ones we trust undermine our government.WE NEED MORE ILLEGALS AND IMMIGRANTS LIKE WE NEED MORE DIRT IN THE HOUSE!