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.
Best Regards,
Ablie Njie- Lekbi
>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 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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