ATTENTION (ALMOST) ALL RAGHEADS. HAVE YOUR PAPERS IN ORDER, OR IT'S GUANTÁNAMO BAY FOR YOU

[rone]

Those lucky Saudis and Kuwaitis don't have to worry about being rounded up, because they're our friends! It's one thing for the INS to imprison immigrants whose visas have expired or have otherwise broken the law, but when you make a rule that singles out specific nationalities, forces them to register, and THEN take advantage of the situation to throw them in jail, that's discrimination, that's entrapment, and that's abusive behavior. But, hey, they're not citizens, so who gives a fuck?

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I am SO glad

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

my Muslim-family Indian friend who could easily be taken for Pakistani (his native language is Urdu; one of his grandfathers lives in Pakistan) has his U.S. passport now.

Who will be next?

[tigresse.livejournal.com]

I wonder if we do learn from history or if we just think we do. Judgements based on this article say we haven't learned bupkis.

[merovingian.livejournal.com]

Gosh boy howdy, I'm glad that I got my granfather's last name and not my grandmother's. The U.S. Citizenship helps, too.

I feel sick.

[reddragdiva]

But it doesn't matter, because they're obviously criminals. Or they wouldn't have been arrested.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Next up: those pesky black people.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

When has their been laws that allows unregistered inhabitants of this country to -be- unregistered? That's the part I don't understand about this whole meshugganah mess.

This country

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

allows freedom of travel. Immigrants are generally not required to maintain any registration of their address, much less give fingerprints and submit to interrogation, as is going on now.

Imposing restrictions on immigrants means including citizens in your enforcement, and from there it's an easy slide into the kinds of travel restrictions nondemocratic countries impose on their own citizens. We argued with my little sister over this for a long time last Thanksgiving when expired student visas were the hot topic. She didn't get why we couldn't just track expired student visas and know when students had overstayed. It took a lot of repetitions to get her to understand that, in order to track the exits of aliens, we would also have to make citizens submit to investigation of their papers on leaving the country.