non-immigrant males last admitted on or before 30 Sept 2002
male from pakistan or saudi born on or before 13 jan 87 and
do not have an application of asylum pending on or before 18 Dec 2002
and not otherwise exempt as described in attached questions an answers and
will be in the US at least until 21 feb 2003
So, come on down, get registered (photographed, fingerprinted, and interviewed under oath) or whatever.
For those on the Feds list of "bad countries" who have voluntarily turned themselves in, but have INS-inflicted Green Card problems, it seems the future citizens are generating headaches and a PR problem the size of Alaska, since have done nothing but wait, wait wait and then get screwed by the the agency charged with helping them become taxpaying citizens. But hey, that makes the rest of us safer, protecting us from law-abiding immigrants unlike perhaps:
It seems that the FBI might have been watching some possible real terrorists, right here, and I'll bet not too many if any the folks "caught" in the net are not among the 600 or so that the FBI is watching. It seems very strange that they announced that they are watching these suspected terrorists now, coincidentally with the "orange" alert thing.
Can someone explain this to me? Or like all other crap coming from the Department of (In)Justice, is it just more bobbing-and-weaving, while trying to deflect any blame or shame?
FYI, I think that once again the arbitrariness involved in the latest sweep due to end next week is silly. According to the website are Pakistani and Saudi, males have until Feb 21st, 2003 to show up and be inspected.
