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American Civil Liberties Union Immigrant Rights Project
features action alerts and statements about special
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Arab American Institute website features action
alerts and fact sheets about special registration
The American
Immigration Lawyers’ Association website features
a
revised factsheet about “Call-In Special Registration"
Other
organizational statements opposing special registration
American
Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
Statement
on December 19, 2002
Statement
on January 15, 2003
American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
American
Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
American
Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
Amnesty
International
Arab
American Institute
Asian
American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Japanese
American Citizens’ League (JACL)
National
Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC)
National
Immigration Forum
Responses to the Special
Registration Program
Pakistan
Expects Changes to U.S. Security Laws
By Simon Denyer
Reuters
February 4, 2003
Pakistan’s foreign minister said Tuesday he was
expecting changes to controversial new U.S. security
arrangements that had prompted fears of a big deportation
of Pakistanis living in the United States.
Pakistan
Seeks Exemption From New U.S. Registration
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post
January 28, 2003
Pakistan's foreign minister warned yesterday that a
special registration program for male visitors to the
United States could destabilize the Pakistani government
and bolster the cause of radical extremists there.
Senate
Votes to Halt INS Registration Program
By Edward Walsh
Washington Post
January 25, 2003
The massive appropriations bill approved by the Senate
late Thursday includes a little-noticed amendment that
would cut off funding for a Justice Department program
that requires male immigrants from two dozen predominantly
Muslim countries to register and be fingerprinted by
the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
U.S.
Plan to Monitor Muslims Meets With Widespread Protest
By Barry James
The New York Times
January 18, 2003
American plans to fingerprint and register visitors
from a number of predominantly Muslim countries met
with widespread protest and indignation yesterday. The
foreign minister of Pakistan made plans to fly to the
United States this weekend to protest in person, and
the government of Indonesia advised its citizens to
avoid traveling to the United States. (Note: users are
charged to access entire article)
Immigrants
May Get More Time to Register With Anti-Terror List
By Matthai Chakko Kuruvila
Mercury News
January 16, 2003
As immigrants from five more Muslim countries are expected
to be added today to the list of those required to register
with the INS, the agency will reportedly grant a grace
period for those who failed to check in over the past
two months.
Hundreds
Rally in Seattle
By Chris McGann
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reporter
January 14, 2003
A Palestinian hip-hop group rapped it in the simplest
terms last night for a crowd of several hundred people
who gathered in protest of the Bush administration's
mandatory registration for male visitors from the Middle
East countries and North Korea: "Is it wrong to
be a Muslim in this system?"
INS
Special Registration System is Illegal, Unconstitutional,
Racist and Discriminatory
By Syed Adeeb
InfoTimes.net,
January 13, 2003
Three United States Congress Members have strongly urged
U.S. Attorney-General John D. Ashcroft to “suspend
further implementation of the National Security Entry-Exit
Registration System (NSEERS) by the U.S. Department
of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
until Congress and that Department conduct a complete
and thorough review of this program.”
Immigration
Sign-In Draws Protest Mideastern Men Asked to Register
The Associated Press
January 11, 2003
Hundreds of people protested in San Francisco Friday
against a program requiring men from mostly Arab or
Muslim nations to register with U.S. immigration authorities.
Lining
Up, Signing Up
By Mae M. Cheng
Newsday.com
January 11, 2003
Apprehensive and angry, hundreds of immigrant men shivered
in the cold for hours outside the Immigration and Naturalization
Service office in downtown Manhattan to meet Friday's
deadline to register with INS officials.
Judge
Won’t Bar Illegal Immigrant Arrests
The Associated Press
January 10, 2003
A federal judge has refused to bar the arrests and deportation
of illegal immigrants who register under a new program
aimed at tracking men from countries considered a high
risk for terrorists.
Immigrants
Sue Over Detentions After Checking In
New York Times
December 25, 2002
A coalition of Muslim-American groups sued Attorney
General John Ashcroft and the Immigration and Naturalization
Service today after hundreds of immigrant men were arrested
and detained last week while trying to register with
federal authorities. (Note: users are charged to access
entire article)
Court
Upholds Registration Plan (note: this is possibly
a false report; the case was not dismissed entirely)
The New York Times
December 24, 2002
A federal judge in Santa Ana, Calif., today dismissed
a lawsuit seeking to end a new registration program
that is roiling immigrant communities.
U.S.,
Ashcroft Get Tough with Paki, Saudi Visitors
By Paul Sperry
WorldNetDaily.com
September 19, 2002
Pakistan warns that a new Justice Department rule to
fingerprint and track visitors from that country will
leave "a bad taste" among Pakistani citizens,
a spokesman for the Pakistan Embassy here told WorldNetDaily.
Community Impacts of the
Special Registration Program
Pakistanis
Fear INS
By Hugh Son
New York Daily News
February 6, 2003
Pakistani citizens living in New York feel they are
facing a Catch-22: Register with the government by the
Feb. 21 deadline, or face arrest and deportation.
For
Undocumented, Homeland Security Just Another System
to Subvert
By Jose Hernandez
Silicon Valley De Bug
February 4, 2003
For a formerly
undocumented man from Mexico, new INS roundups and tightened
security measures recall living in fear of deportation.
But the PNS contributor Jose Hernandez also remembers
the struggles with not having rights long before 9/11.
A
Register of Immigrants’ Fears
By Nurith C. Aizenman,
The Washington Post
January 19, 2003
Mohammed’s relatives filed somberly into his sister-in-law’s
cramped living room, too distracted to pass around the
Moroccan sweets they usually enjoy after family dinners.
Explanation
of INS Rules Adds to Fears
By Gaiutra Bahadur and Oliver Prichard
Inquirer
January 27, 2003
As a Christian, Antonius Lugita feared for his livelihood
and his children in his predominantly Muslim homeland,
Indonesia. Over the weekend in Center City, he listened
to lawyers explain a new U.S. government rule - spurred
by the Sept. 11 attacks - that could result in his being
deported to his majority Muslim homeland.
Complying,
Anxiously, with an INS Roundup
By Nick Madigan
The New York Times
January 12, 2003
Shoaib Muhammad,
a 29-year-old computer engineer from Karachi, Pakistan,
who has worked here for two years, says he is as far
from being a terrorist as one could imagine.
Get
Involved, or Perish
By Payam Mohseni
THE IRANIAN
December 23, 2002
With this article, I intend to not only inform the public
of the unconstitutional arrests and inhuman treatment
of individuals who voluntarily register with the INS
but to demand of the Iranian-American community a political
and cultural renaissance to reflect our needs.
Other Links on the
Implementation of the Special Registration Program
Men
from 5 More Countries Will Have to Report to INS
By Anastasia Hendrix
San Francisco Chronicle
January 16, 2003
Just as critics feared and immigration officials had
promised, the federal government is expected to announce
today that men from five more countries will be added
to the list of those who must register with the Immigration
and Naturalization Service.
U.S.
Starts Freeing Foreigners Detained in Antiterror Sweep
By John M. Broder
New York Times
December 20, 2002
Federal immigration authorities today began releasing
scores of foreign-born men who had been detained in
a nationwide dragnet designed to track potential terrorists.
U.S.
Drops Armenian Men from List of Visitors Who Must Register
By John M. Broder
New York Times
December 19, 2002
Reversing course, the Department of Justice has dropped
Armenia from the list of countries whose adult male
citizens living temporarily in the United States must
register with immigration authorities.
Men
from Muslim Nations Swamp Immigration Office
By John M. Broder and Susan Sachs
New York Times
December 17, 2002
Lines began forming before dawn today outside the downtown
federal building here as hundreds of men from five Muslim
countries showed up to register with immigration authorities
under a sweeping national dragnet designed to identify
potential terrorists.
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