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Politics : ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION THE FIGHT TO KEEP OUR DEMOCRACY -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Carolyn who wrote (28)	8/14/2002 10:05:57 AM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3197

US to fingerprint visitors from 9/11 By Anwar Iqbal From the International Desk Published 8/13/2002 11:08 AM View printer-friendly version WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- The United States will fingerprint and photograph tens of thousands of visitors from several Middle Eastern and Muslim countries entering the country after Sept. 11, U.S. officials announced Tuesday. Sept. 11 has been chosen as the starting date for the new procedure because of its symbolic importance as the day when the United States faced the worst terrorist attack in its history. "After an initial 20-day period for testing and evaluating the system at selected ports of entry, all remaining ports of entry -- including land, air and sea -- will have the new system in place on Oct. 1," said Attorney General John Ashcroft, who announced the first phase of the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System. He said: "The visitors will be selected according to intelligence criteria reflecting patterns of terrorist organizations' activities." Visitors from five countries on the U.S. State Department's state sponsors of terrorism -- Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan and Syria -- will be photographed and fingerprinted. The program will also apply to non-immigrant aliens whom the State Department determines to present an elevated national security risk, based on criteria reflecting current intelligence. Aliens identified by Immigration and Naturalization Service inspectors at the port of entry, using similar criteria, will also be scrutinized. "The vulnerabilities of our immigration system became starkly clear on Sept. 11," said Ashcroft. The new program, which will be implemented by the INS, will correct some of the problems that led to the Sept. 11 attacks, Ashcroft said. The program will also require so-called high-risk visiting aliens to confirm periodically where they are living and what they are doing in the United States. They must also inform the INS whenever they leave the country. "This system will expand substantially America's scrutiny of those foreign visitors who may present an elevated national security risk, and it will provide a vital line of defense in the war against terrorism," Ashcroft said. Congress required the Justice Department to develop a stricter entry-exit system conforming to sweeping anti-terrorism legislation that was signed by President George W. Bush late last year. Ashcroft described the new measures as the first step toward the development of a comprehensive entry-exit system applicable to virtually all foreign visitors. Fingerprints obtained under the new procedure will be matched against a database of known criminals and terrorists. The system has already been tested under a pilot project that used the same fingerprint technology to identify wanted criminals attempting to re-enter the United States. The Immigration and Naturalization Service received an average of more than 70 "hits" a week under this program, which resulted in the arrest of more than 2,000 wanted felons from January-July 2002. U.S. law has long required foreign nationals who stay in the country for more than 30 days to be registered and fingerprinted, but the law has been virtually suspended for decades. upi.com

To: Carolyn who wrote (28)	10/25/2002 10:26:40 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 3197

Day labor crusade divides Cave Creek Resident fights hiring of illegal workers By Thomas Ropp The Arizona Republic Oct. 24, 2002 CAVE CREEK - A Cave Creek man intent on intimidating contractors who hire undocumented workers is being praised by some and is making others nervous. Joe Fendler estimates that the number of contractors who hire undocumented workers in a church-sponsored day-laborer program has been cut in half since he began photographing them and their license plates two weeks ago. "They see me standing there and drive on," Fendler said. Fendler said he is forwarding the information to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Internal Revenue Service, Social Security Administration and the Arizona Department of Labor. Kathy McKee, a spokeswoman for Concerned Citizens Network of Arizona, a loosely knit organization determined to stop illegal immigration, calls Fendler's actions a "very clever and innocuous way" to educate the community that hiring illegals is illegal. "It seems pretty clear that INA (Immigration and Nationality Act) Section 274 makes it illegal to hire an illegal alien or do anything to encourage an illegal alien to stay in this country," McKee said. McKee and Fendler have been particularly critical of Good Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church for sponsoring the day-laborer program and the town of Cave Creek for unofficially supporting it. McKee said her organization plans on asking both Ron Smith, the new regional director for the INS and the U.S. Attorney General's Office, to "start doing their jobs" and enforce the law in Cave Creek. arizonarepublic.com