Habib,
I will be more than willing to do anything voluntary
around the Washington area. I have met some of the
people who stopped by my house to collect funds. If it
comes to what you suggested, please keep me in mind.
You may write to me privately at [log in to unmask] or
call me at 301-847-7774 at home.
Ousman Jallow Bojang.
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<P>Brothers and sisters ,</P>
<P>I commend brothers Ousman Bojang and Bai Secka and
all in Atlanta who have devoted so much to helping our
brothers and a sister in need .( I understand one
sister in held in custody and has an infant baby too
with her) .</P>
<P> </P>
<P>my contributions and donation of $50.00 is on it's
way . I am about to send it out today. I request that
each of us send $50.00 at least . It is the cost of a
ten big mac meals . If you can sacrifice those meals
for the next two weeks and help out.</P>
<P>Yes it can be me or you anr another african brother
or sister tomorrow.</P>
<P>A fund raising dinner would be in line . Say charge
each person $25.00 contribution and fedd them the best
benechine with some deserts at the masjid or any
rental community center in the area.</P>
<P> Any voulnteers?? thanks</P>
<P>Habib<BR><BR></P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>From: Abdoul Njie <[log in to unmask]>
<DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues
mailing list <[log in to unmask]>
<DIV></DIV>>To: [log in to unmask]
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: Recommended: "A new dragnet
for illegal workers"- Fundraising
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:55:56 +0000
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Mr.Bojang,
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Thanks for putting the information out
here. As you said, the
<DIV></DIV>>Atlanta
<DIV></DIV>>community will appreciate any help. We are
still below the required
<DIV></DIV>>amount
<DIV></DIV>>needed for the legal fees.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Special thanks to the Washington D.C
community for your exemplary
<DIV></DIV>>contributions.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Best Regards,
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Ablie Njie- Lekbi
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>>From: Ousman Bojang
<[log in to unmask]>
<DIV></DIV>>>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues
mailing list
<DIV></DIV>>><[log in to unmask]>
<DIV></DIV>>>To: [log in to unmask]
<DIV></DIV>>>Subject: Re: Recommended: "A new dragnet
for illegal workers"
<DIV></DIV>>>Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 20:34:55 -0800
<DIV></DIV>>>
<DIV></DIV>>>Mr. Ghanim,
<DIV></DIV>>>I have learned from very reliable sources
tonight that
<DIV></DIV>>>a bail bond has been acted on behalf of
some of these
<DIV></DIV>>>folks and there is work going on for the
rest.
<DIV></DIV>>>This is the most encouraging news I
heard. I am
<DIV></DIV>>>encouraging all again to contribute and
even start any
<DIV></DIV>>>kind of collections they can do in their
small
<DIV></DIV>>>communities to help. Any amount I am sure
they will be
<DIV></DIV>>>welcomed.
<DIV></DIV>>>So please, may I emphasiz again. One does
not know
<DIV></DIV>>>when and who might be the next victim.
Let us all work
<DIV></DIV>>>together and get something done.
<DIV></DIV>>>God bless us all.
<DIV></DIV>>>
<DIV></DIV>>>Ousman Jallow Bojang.
<DIV></DIV>>>--- Habib Diab-Ghanim
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
<DIV></DIV>>> > [log in to unmask] has recommended this
article from
<DIV></DIV>>> > The Christian Science Monitor's
electronic edition.
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > FYI
<DIV></DIV>>> > What has happened to our brothers in
Atlanta -
<DIV></DIV>>> > please update. I pray that they get
released soon.
<DIV></DIV>>> > Habib
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > Click here to email this story to a
friend:
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>>http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/send-story?2002/03/06/text/p01s01.txt
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > Click here to read this story online:
<DIV></DIV>>> >
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0306/p01s01-usju.html
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > Headline: A new dragnet for illegal
workers
<DIV></DIV>>> > Byline: Ron Scherer Staff writer of
The Christian
<DIV></DIV>>> > Science Monitor
<DIV></DIV>>> > Date: 03/06/2002
<DIV></DIV>>> > (NEW YORK)Haitian Jean-Claude Cazeau
was a janitor
<DIV></DIV>>> > at Logan Airport. Far from his
<DIV></DIV>>> > native Malaysia, Shamshad Bagam Karim
was a parking
<DIV></DIV>>> > valet at Las
<DIV></DIV>>> > Vegas's McCarran Airport. And Alvaro
Pardo,
<DIV></DIV>>> > originally from Chile,
<DIV></DIV>>> > worked at a candy store at the Salt
Lake City
<DIV></DIV>>> > airport.
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > Within the past weeks, all three have
been arrested
<DIV></DIV>>> > and now face the
<DIV></DIV>>> > possibility of jail time and
deportation. They were
<DIV></DIV>>> > detained for
<DIV></DIV>>> > allegedly using some form of false
identification to
<DIV></DIV>>> > obtain their jobs
<DIV></DIV>>> > - each in a secure area of an airport.
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > The expanding dragnet symbolizes a
hardening stance
<DIV></DIV>>> > by federal
<DIV></DIV>>> > authorities toward illegal immigrants
of all
<DIV></DIV>>> > nationalities who they
<DIV></DIV>>> > think might pose a security threat.
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > While law-enforcement officials have
yet to link any
<DIV></DIV>>> > of the people
<DIV></DIV>>> > recently arrested - almost all of whom
are Latinos -
<DIV></DIV>>> > to terrorists,
<DIV></DIV>>> > they believe that undocumented workers
are
<DIV></DIV>>> > susceptible to being
<DIV></DIV>>> > approached by nefarious groups.
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > Critics, however, believe the
undocumented workers
<DIV></DIV>>> > are being unfairly
<DIV></DIV>>> > targeted. Consequently, the new sweeps
are setting
<DIV></DIV>>> > off a debate over
<DIV></DIV>>> > the extent to which illegal
immigrants, many of whom
<DIV></DIV>>> > have been allowed
<DIV></DIV>>> > to work unmolested in such low-wage
jobs for years,
<DIV></DIV>>> > will and should be
<DIV></DIV>>> > prosecuted in a post-Sept. 11 world.
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > For some of the US public, the issue
results in a
<DIV></DIV>>> > conflict in values.
<DIV></DIV>>> > "Americans have an ambivalent attitude
toward
<DIV></DIV>>> > illegal immigrants," says
<DIV></DIV>>> > James Lindsay, an immigration
specialist at the
<DIV></DIV>>> > Brookings Institution
<DIV></DIV>>> > in Washington. "They expect people to
obey the law,
<DIV></DIV>>> > but they don't put
<DIV></DIV>>> > too much pressure to arrest them and
argue it's
<DIV></DIV>>> > unfair or
<DIV></DIV>>> > counterproductive."
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > The Bush administration, for its part,
seems to be
<DIV></DIV>>> > adopting a
<DIV></DIV>>> > zero-tolerance policy. One Justice
Department
<DIV></DIV>>> > official says making
<DIV></DIV>>> > airports safer is of the highest
priority for the
<DIV></DIV>>> > administration - and
<DIV></DIV>>> > the latest moves are intended to
fulfill the intent
<DIV></DIV>>> > of legislation
<DIV></DIV>>> > passed after Sept. 11.
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > "Undocumented workers represent a
significant threat
<DIV></DIV>>> > to the flying
<DIV></DIV>>> > public," says Natalie Collins, a
spokeswoman for the
<DIV></DIV>>> > US Attorney's
<DIV></DIV>>> > office in Las Vegas. "Because they are
illegal, they
<DIV></DIV>>> > are susceptible to
<DIV></DIV>>> > compromise."
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > Airport workers may not be the only
ones under
<DIV></DIV>>> > scrutiny. US
<DIV></DIV>>> > investigators are expected to also go
through
<DIV></DIV>>> > employment applications
<DIV></DIV>>> > at nuclear power plants, hydroelectric
dams, and
<DIV></DIV>>> > other
<DIV></DIV>>> > security-sensitive facilities.
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > One mayor's stand
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > So far, some 100 airport workers have
been arrested.
<DIV></DIV>>> > After the arrests,
<DIV></DIV>>> > Rocky Anderson, the mayor of Salt Lake
City, sent a
<DIV></DIV>>> > letter to 40 other
<DIV></DIV>>> > mayors warning them about the federal
raids and
<DIV></DIV>>> > urging them to "get the
<DIV></DIV>>> > word out that if there is a problem,
they [the
<DIV></DIV>>> > workers] need to get out
<DIV></DIV>>> > and find other employment."
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > Mr. Anderson, who has received a lot
of hate mail
<DIV></DIV>>> > because of his stand,
<DIV></DIV>>> > calls the US policy "hypocritical." He
says the
<DIV></DIV>>> > government just "winks
<DIV></DIV>>> > and nods" when it comes to illegals
working in
<DIV></DIV>>> > hotels, food, or lawn
<DIV></DIV>>> > care. "Let's resolve this by giving
them fair
<DIV></DIV>>> > notice," he says.
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > However, those under arrest are often
unquestionably
<DIV></DIV>>> > in violation of
<DIV></DIV>>> > the law by using false Social Security
Numbers
<DIV></DIV>>> > (SSNs) or forged "green
<DIV></DIV>>> > cards." But the charge has hardly ever
been used
<DIV></DIV>>> > because of the number
<DIV></DIV>>> > of illegal workers. Mr. Lindsay says
there are
<DIV></DIV>>> > estimates of 7 million
<DIV></DIV>>> > to 11 million undocumented workers in
the US.
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > Through the 1970s and 1980s, anyone
could make up an
<DIV></DIV>>> > SSN and no one
<DIV></DIV>>> > would pay attention, says Chris
Hibbert of Computer
<DIV></DIV>>> > Professionals for
<DIV></DIV>>> > Social Responsibility in Palo Alto,
Calif.
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > By the 1990s, employees needed a
matching name and
<DIV></DIV>>> > number, unless their
<DIV></DIV>>> > employer turned a blind eye. Then,
people with
<DIV></DIV>>> > access to numbers, such
<DIV></DIV>>> > as bank employees or healthcare
workers, started
<DIV></DIV>>> > selling them for $20
<DIV></DIV>>> > to $100 apiece, he says. Recently, the
Social
<DIV></DIV>>> > Security Administration
<DIV></DIV>>> > arrested some of its own employees in
Chicago for
<DIV></DIV>>> > selling numbers to
<DIV></DIV>>> > illegal immigrants.
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > In 2000, the government arrested or
indicted 219
<DIV></DIV>>> > people in 182 cases
<DIV></DIV>>> > for using falsified SSNs. Last year,
there were 242
<DIV></DIV>>> > subjects in 207
<DIV></DIV>>> > cases, and overall the Social Security
<DIV></DIV>>> > Administration said that about
<DIV></DIV>>> > 21 million names did not match up with
Social
<DIV></DIV>>> > Security numbers for any
<DIV></DIV>>> > number of reasons - ranging from
marriages to
<DIV></DIV>>> > foreign names to fraud.
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > To pursue these cases - as well as
other instances
<DIV></DIV>>> > of fraud - there are
<DIV></DIV>>> > 279 criminal investigators working for
the Social
<DIV></DIV>>> > Security inspector
<DIV></DIV>>> > general.
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > A changed world
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > Social Security investigators stress
that it is the
<DIV></DIV>>> > changed world since
<DIV></DIV>>> > Sept. 11 that is causing the sudden
interest in
<DIV></DIV>>> > immigrants'
<DIV></DIV>>> > documentation. "If someone can falsify
documents and
<DIV></DIV>>> > get a
<DIV></DIV>>> > high-security badge, they can
potentially put a bomb
<DIV></DIV>>> > on a plane or
<DIV></DIV>>> > anything else," says Dennis Lynch,
special agent in
<DIV></DIV>>> > charge of Social
<DIV></DIV>>> > Security's Strategic Enforcement
Division. "We are
<DIV></DIV>>> > talking issues of
<DIV></DIV>>> > protecting our critical
infrastructure, including
<DIV></DIV>>> > dams, bridges, and
<DIV></DIV>>> > nuclear power plants."
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > Yet the rush to secure the airports
illustrates some
<DIV></DIV>>> > of the
<DIV></DIV>>> > difficulties involved. Sometimes, for
example, the
<DIV></DIV>>> > documents that
<DIV></DIV>>> > federal agents are pouring over are
not up to date.
<DIV></DIV>>> > In Salt Lake City,
<DIV></DIV>>> > one person charged had left the
airport for a
<DIV></DIV>>> > construction job two
<DIV></DIV>>> > months prior to the raid. The charges
against him
<DIV></DIV>>> > were dropped - as
<DIV></DIV>>> > were those against pregnant women and
mothers with
<DIV></DIV>>> > newborns.
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>> > All this is part of larger changes
taking place
<DIV></DIV>>> > behind the scenes in
<DIV></DIV>>> > the nation's airports. It's not just
the screeners -
<DIV></DIV>>> > now federal
<DIV></DIV>>> >
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