INS Denied Residency to LAX Gunman

AP | 7/06/02 | ANDREW BRIDGE

[pabianice]

who received an immigration visa through the Department of States' Diversity Lottery Program,

Pretty much says it all. We let people in not based upon who they are or what they can contribute, but because of the color if their skin. Pure, unadulterated racism.

[kattracks]

This guy was going to be deported and there's no record of why? Apparently, the INS doesn't go to great lengths to search out and deport people, so there must have been something to bring him to their attention. What?!?

[Ciexyz]

What timing. The family runs for safety back to the homeland, Egypt, a week before the guy carries out a terrorist shooting.

[FITZ]

Relatives said Hadayet was a Cairo-born accountant who ran a limousine company out of his apartment.

Another needed immigrant here to do work no American would do.

[Stentor]

FBI special agent Richard Garcia said it still wasn't known if Hadayet harbored anti-Israel feelings.

HUH?

[sarcasm]

We clearly need more diversity in our terrorist population.

[Soul Citizen]

Sleeper

[Reaganwuzthebest]

who received an immigration visa through the Department of States' Diversity Lottery Program

If I'm not mistaken, Ted Kennedy pushed that legislation through in the early 90's. Apparently his desire to destroy America and Americans wasn't satisfied with the 1965 disaster.

That traitor can't retire quick enough for me.

[Hildy]

When I worked at a Technical Society, one of our Board Members lamented that he could not receive a VISA for his main Engineer, one of the most brilliant engineers he had ever met.

[sarcasm]

How many more will get permanent residence if Bush gets his 245(i) extension?

[Pharmboy]

I don't get it: we already have many arab terrorists. If we were going for diversity, why not let in some Basque terrorists? The State Dept. is slipping...

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Just guessing, but if 500,000 are amnestied through 245(i), which Numbers USA estimates it at, then you have to figure after they bring in all their relatives from chain migration, it'll be at least several million more.

[Havisham]

Give me a break! The perp had fake IDs and aliases. He was an islamist sleeper employed to keep terrorism in the news. His elite connections only underscore his terror motive. He knew when he left the house that morning that he would not survive the attack. He was a suicide killer. The mystery exits only in the minds of the FBI and the administration.

[aristeides]

Police records show officers were called to the apartment on May 19, 1996, over a domestic dispute. They found Hadayet and his wife "had been involved in a physical confrontation." Police referred the case to the district attorney for potential assault-and-battery charges against both parties, but the office declined to prosecute.

The domestic dispute turns out to have been with his wife, as I had at first supposed. I wonder why this article doesn't mention the guy's dispute with his neighbors.

[Guillermo]

...who received an immigration visa through the Department of States' Diversity Lottery Program

Does this just make ya wanna scream, or what?

[tallhappy]

FBI special agent Richard Garcia said it still wasn't known if Hadayet harbored anti-Israel feelings.

One of his employees was on TV last night saying that this guy hated the Jews of course like all of them hate the Jews because the Jews are destroying Egypt by bringing in prostitutes and such types sins.

He said everyone knows it and hates the Jews for it but shouldn't go out and kill like that.

Seriously -- the above sounds like a joke but it was on local TV yesterday.

In the interview the employee was saying this and at first I thought he was presenting it as the killer being a little crazy but he kept going and it became apparent he also believed that. And he was oblivious to the ludicrousness of his own comments.

The cowardly news people said absolutly nothing about these comments by the employee.

[aristeides]

If the guy's residency in this country depended on the wife's status, what happens to him when the wife goes back to Egypt?

[bok]

The government has more blood on their hands.