Yero,
Thank you very much for your contribution. I am sure it will help towards
the legal fees.
Best Regards,
Lekbi
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>Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 15:56:09 +0000
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>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.
>>
>>
>>Best Regards,
>>
>>
>>Ablie Njie- Lekbi
>>
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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:
>>> >
>>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> > [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
>>> >
>>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> >
>>> > 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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