I guess after dragging their feet for two months, it even became obvious to the Feds that this needed to be done.
Now, when do we start the deportations?
Posted on 11/13/2001 1:58:53 PM PST by truthandlife
The United States has tightened visa restrictions on applicants from a range of Arab and Islamic countries.
U.S. officials said the government has drafted a profile that matches that of Islamic suicide attackers who destroyed the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon on Sept. 11. The officials said scores of people from Arab and Islamic countries have already been placed on a black list and are ineligible to enter the United States.
The restrictions apply to nationals from 26 Arab and Islamic countries, Middle East Newsline reported. The restrictions focus on males ages 16 to 45.
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the number of people declared ineligible for a visa because of security concerns has tripled over the last month. Boucher said this has delayed visa processing for applicants from numerous countries.
"We will look at people of a certain age, of a certain background, and do careful checks against different databases with them," Boucher said. "We do look at people who have a certain background, certain age, certain origins."
U.S. authorities have become more selective in granting visas in wake of threats of a nonconventional weapons attack by Saudi fugitive Osama Bin Laden. On Sunday, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Bin Laden could have biological, chemical and radiation weapons.
"I think it's unlikely he has a nuclear weapon," Rumsfeld said in a television interview. "It is certainly reasonable to assume he might very well have chemical or biological and possibly even radiation weapons."
The new restrictions could slow down visa applications for Saudis, who have been eligible for accelerated procedures. About 5,500 Saudi students — 3,500 of them on government scholarships — were said to have been studying at U.S. universities before the Sept. 11 terror attacks. So far, 300 Saudi students have cut short their university studies in the United States and returned home.
Officials said the new visa restrictions are being coordinated with other U.S. agencies, including the Immigration and Naturalization Service as well as the Justice Department.
They'll say they were harrassed; the truth is probably that the their "studies" have been interrupted by the FBI.
I guess after dragging their feet for two months, it even became obvious to the Feds that this needed to be done.
Now, when do we start the deportations?
I hope it can be fanned back into a flame.
The enemy is in this country right now. And any terrorists who are not already here are free to immigrate. The government has been doing an excellent job rounding up suspects from the last two attacks. But what about the next attack? We thought there was only one murderous Islamic cell in America the last time, too.Congress has authority to pass a law tomorrow requiring aliens from suspect countries to leave. As far as the Constitution is concerned, aliens, which is to say non-citizens, are here at this country's pleasure. They have no constitutional right to be here.
Communicate! Let the Sons of....
NOW IS THE TIME TO CANCEL ALL VISAS!! WE MUST DEPORT ALL ALIENS, ENACT A MORATORIUM ON IMMIGRATION!!!
I don't agree with the title of this link. I think deportation should be selectively aimed at people from dangerous countries. But I include this link because it is a good discussion on the subject.
'Arab terrorists' crossing border: Middle Eastern illegals find easy entrance into U.S. from Mexico
WND POLL
Why is U.S. government taking little action to secure its borders?
Congress Still Won't Stop Illegal Immigration Democrats have not dropped their opposition to stopping illegal immigration, with troops or without. Complaining that Democratic efforts to make immigration into the United States easier have been complicated by the attacks, a Democratic Senate aide told the Washington Post, "Obviously what happened is going to make our job harder."
International Terrorism and Immigration Policy House Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims
Hearing on International Terrorism and Immigration Policy
January 25, 2000
Good morning. Before I begin my prepared comments, I would like to take a moment to express my deepest appreciation to you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing, and, equally important, for standing up to the orchestrated campaign to stop me from appearing. Because of the investigative work I have carried out as a journalist and investigator in exposing the presence of militant Islamic fundamentalists and Middle Eastern terrorists in the United States (see attached bio), I have been the subject of a sustained campaign of vilification, defamation and even a threat to my life during the past five years by militant Islamic organizations operating as self-anointed representatives of the larger Muslim population, whom they decidedly do not represent.
It's about time!
Now, when do we start the deportations?
Absolutely, ASAP I hope.
We should also make very affirmitave actions to track down illegals. I'm sure we all know neighborhoods where there is a probability of discovering people who have over stayed their visits.
It's easy:
Go to all of the Mosques, round-up all of the islamics, Deport them.
Islam is the problem, zero tolerance is the solution.
That will never happen.
Pity.
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