Njie,
I will contact Ousman on the above and send my contributions via him.I
really feel what happened to those poor guys who were trying their best to
sustain their families. I pray to ALLAH TO INTERVENE IN THEIR FAVOUR AS SOON
AS POSSIBLE!
YEROPULLOH!
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>Mr.Bojang,
>
>Thanks for putting the information out here. As you said, the Atlanta
>community will appreciate any help. We are still below the required amount
>needed for the legal fees.
>
>Special thanks to the Washington D.C community for your exemplary
>contributions.
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>Best Regards,
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>>From: Ousman Bojang <[log in to unmask]>
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>>Subject: Re: Recommended: "A new dragnet for illegal workers"
>>Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 20:34:55 -0800
>>
>>Mr. Ghanim,
>>I have learned from very reliable sources tonight that
>>a bail bond has been acted on behalf of some of these
>>folks and there is work going on for the rest.
>>This is the most encouraging news I heard. I am
>>encouraging all again to contribute and even start any
>>kind of collections they can do in their small
>>communities to help. Any amount I am sure they will be
>>welcomed.
>>So please, may I emphasiz again. One does not know
>>when and who might be the next victim. Let us all work
>>together and get something done.
>>God bless us all.
>>
>>Ousman Jallow Bojang.
>>--- Habib Diab-Ghanim <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >
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>> > [log in to unmask] has recommended this article from
>> > The Christian Science Monitor's electronic edition.
>> >
>> > FYI
>> > What has happened to our brothers in Atlanta -
>> > please update. I pray that they get released soon.
>> > Habib
>> >
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>> >
>> > Click here to email this story to a friend:
>> >
>>http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/send-story?2002/03/06/text/p01s01.txt
>> >
>> > Click here to read this story online:
>> > http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0306/p01s01-usju.html
>> >
>> >
>> > Headline: A new dragnet for illegal workers
>> > Byline: Ron Scherer Staff writer of The Christian
>> > Science Monitor
>> > Date: 03/06/2002
>> > (NEW YORK)Haitian Jean-Claude Cazeau was a janitor
>> > at Logan Airport. Far from his
>> > native Malaysia, Shamshad Bagam Karim was a parking
>> > valet at Las
>> > Vegas's McCarran Airport. And Alvaro Pardo,
>> > originally from Chile,
>> > worked at a candy store at the Salt Lake City
>> > airport.
>> >
>> > Within the past weeks, all three have been arrested
>> > and now face the
>> > possibility of jail time and deportation. They were
>> > detained for
>> > allegedly using some form of false identification to
>> > obtain their jobs
>> > - each in a secure area of an airport.
>> >
>> > The expanding dragnet symbolizes a hardening stance
>> > by federal
>> > authorities toward illegal immigrants of all
>> > nationalities who they
>> > think might pose a security threat.
>> >
>> > While law-enforcement officials have yet to link any
>> > of the people
>> > recently arrested - almost all of whom are Latinos -
>> > to terrorists,
>> > they believe that undocumented workers are
>> > susceptible to being
>> > approached by nefarious groups.
>> >
>> > Critics, however, believe the undocumented workers
>> > are being unfairly
>> > targeted. Consequently, the new sweeps are setting
>> > off a debate over
>> > the extent to which illegal immigrants, many of whom
>> > have been allowed
>> > to work unmolested in such low-wage jobs for years,
>> > will and should be
>> > prosecuted in a post-Sept. 11 world.
>> >
>> > For some of the US public, the issue results in a
>> > conflict in values.
>> > "Americans have an ambivalent attitude toward
>> > illegal immigrants," says
>> > James Lindsay, an immigration specialist at the
>> > Brookings Institution
>> > in Washington. "They expect people to obey the law,
>> > but they don't put
>> > too much pressure to arrest them and argue it's
>> > unfair or
>> > counterproductive."
>> >
>> > The Bush administration, for its part, seems to be
>> > adopting a
>> > zero-tolerance policy. One Justice Department
>> > official says making
>> > airports safer is of the highest priority for the
>> > administration - and
>> > the latest moves are intended to fulfill the intent
>> > of legislation
>> > passed after Sept. 11.
>> >
>> > "Undocumented workers represent a significant threat
>> > to the flying
>> > public," says Natalie Collins, a spokeswoman for the
>> > US Attorney's
>> > office in Las Vegas. "Because they are illegal, they
>> > are susceptible to
>> > compromise."
>> >
>> > Airport workers may not be the only ones under
>> > scrutiny. US
>> > investigators are expected to also go through
>> > employment applications
>> > at nuclear power plants, hydroelectric dams, and
>> > other
>> > security-sensitive facilities.
>> >
>> > One mayor's stand
>> >
>> > So far, some 100 airport workers have been arrested.
>> > After the arrests,
>> > Rocky Anderson, the mayor of Salt Lake City, sent a
>> > letter to 40 other
>> > mayors warning them about the federal raids and
>> > urging them to "get the
>> > word out that if there is a problem, they [the
>> > workers] need to get out
>> > and find other employment."
>> >
>> > Mr. Anderson, who has received a lot of hate mail
>> > because of his stand,
>> > calls the US policy "hypocritical." He says the
>> > government just "winks
>> > and nods" when it comes to illegals working in
>> > hotels, food, or lawn
>> > care. "Let's resolve this by giving them fair
>> > notice," he says.
>> >
>> > However, those under arrest are often unquestionably
>> > in violation of
>> > the law by using false Social Security Numbers
>> > (SSNs) or forged "green
>> > cards." But the charge has hardly ever been used
>> > because of the number
>> > of illegal workers. Mr. Lindsay says there are
>> > estimates of 7 million
>> > to 11 million undocumented workers in the US.
>> >
>> > Through the 1970s and 1980s, anyone could make up an
>> > SSN and no one
>> > would pay attention, says Chris Hibbert of Computer
>> > Professionals for
>> > Social Responsibility in Palo Alto, Calif.
>> >
>> > By the 1990s, employees needed a matching name and
>> > number, unless their
>> > employer turned a blind eye. Then, people with
>> > access to numbers, such
>> > as bank employees or healthcare workers, started
>> > selling them for $20
>> > to $100 apiece, he says. Recently, the Social
>> > Security Administration
>> > arrested some of its own employees in Chicago for
>> > selling numbers to
>> > illegal immigrants.
>> >
>> > In 2000, the government arrested or indicted 219
>> > people in 182 cases
>> > for using falsified SSNs. Last year, there were 242
>> > subjects in 207
>> > cases, and overall the Social Security
>> > Administration said that about
>> > 21 million names did not match up with Social
>> > Security numbers for any
>> > number of reasons - ranging from marriages to
>> > foreign names to fraud.
>> >
>> > To pursue these cases - as well as other instances
>> > of fraud - there are
>> > 279 criminal investigators working for the Social
>> > Security inspector
>> > general.
>> >
>> > A changed world
>> >
>> > Social Security investigators stress that it is the
>> > changed world since
>> > Sept. 11 that is causing the sudden interest in
>> > immigrants'
>> > documentation. "If someone can falsify documents and
>> > get a
>> > high-security badge, they can potentially put a bomb
>> > on a plane or
>> > anything else," says Dennis Lynch, special agent in
>> > charge of Social
>> > Security's Strategic Enforcement Division. "We are
>> > talking issues of
>> > protecting our critical infrastructure, including
>> > dams, bridges, and
>> > nuclear power plants."
>> >
>> > Yet the rush to secure the airports illustrates some
>> > of the
>> > difficulties involved. Sometimes, for example, the
>> > documents that
>> > federal agents are pouring over are not up to date.
>> > In Salt Lake City,
>> > one person charged had left the airport for a
>> > construction job two
>> > months prior to the raid. The charges against him
>> > were dropped - as
>> > were those against pregnant women and mothers with
>> > newborns.
>> >
>> > All this is part of larger changes taking place
>> > behind the scenes in
>> > the nation's airports. It's not just the screeners -
>> > now federal
>> >
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>>
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