'Stop the racist round-ups!'
A week of daily protests at the Immigration and
Naturalization Service in San Francisco and Los Angeles
culminated in a Jan. 10 action in which hundreds of supporters
of Arab and Muslim men--who face mandatory registration if they
are over 16--came out to condemn this latest attack.
Jan. 10 was the deadline for the second phase of a racist
round-up affecting men from Afghanistan, Lebanon, North Korea,
Bahrain, Eritrea, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Tunisia, the
United Arab Emirates and Yemen. Already across this country
7,200 men, many without legal representation, have been thrown
in jail for any inconsistency the INS determines in their visa
status.
Many at the Jan. 10 protest compared what the INS is doing
to the concentration camps for Japanese Americans during World
War II. This current witch-hunt is meant to create a climate of
hostility and intimidation, primarily against Arab people.
Reprinted from the Jan. 23, 2003, issue of
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