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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> The Christian Science Monitor's electronic edition.
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> FYI
> What has happened to our brothers in Atlanta -
> please update. I pray that they get released soon.
> Habib
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> 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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