posted on September 19, 2001 05:49:01 PM new
When your neighbors start to disapear don't give it a second thought.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 — The
Bush administration today
announced a major expansion of its power
to detain immigrants suspected of crimes,
including new rules prompted by last week's
terrorist attacks that would allow legal
immigrants to be detained indefinitely during
a national emergency.
Citing the new powers, the Justice
Department said it would continue to hold
75 immigrants arrested in connection with
the attacks on the World Trade Center and
the Pentagon. Previously, the department
faced a 24- hour deadline on whether to
release detained immigrants or charge them
with a crime, or with violating the terms of
their visa.
posted on September 19, 2001 06:50:13 PM newwould allow legal immigrants to be detained indefinitely during a national emergency.
Sounds like the "Internment Camps" of WWII. Exactly what they've been saying they won't do.
Previously, the department faced a 24- hour deadline on whether to release detained immigrants or charge them with a crime
Yeah, right, like with all the screwy, never inforced laws on our books, they couldn't find SOME way to hold someone if they really needed to?
Devils Advocate Mode on: Considering the way things are right now, dump an Arab looking fell'a in a 40 man cell, there is bound to be a fight... Then you charge who ever you want with assault
posted on September 20, 2001 12:36:44 AM new
Non US citizens do not have the rights of US citizens. This bothers me not one twit.
This is one country where you can get a visa and disappear. One of these hijackers was on an expired visa and if anyone would have even looked up his name it would have shown he was a terrorist wanted by Israel. This I think is going to stop.
posted on September 20, 2001 05:43:39 AM new
Edited 'cause I bored krs. Don't have a country store to sit in front to whittle and lie.
I have to ask if "all men are created equal - and endowed with certain inalienable rights" as it says in the declaration of independance then why would we wish to treat anyone as unequal and lacking those same rights on the basis of citizenship?
Should not basic human decency call for us to recognize those universal qualities in all men?
And given such brotherhood how can a nation based on those principals slam the door in the face of anyone seeking to join themselves to the nation to seek such natural human rights and escape the hand of tyrants?
The US turns away people saying they ONLY want a better economic life as if property rights are seperated from political questions. When that was the basis of the American Revolution. Property rights are the practical demonstration of political rights.
