Here's some news:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday it will speed up deportations of certain illegal immigrants from countries other than Mexico to improve U.S. border security.

"This announcement today ... is a border security effort," Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson told reporters. "Those who choose to break our nation's immigration laws will be promptly removed from the United States."

In the past 16 months, U.S. officials along the Southwest border caught 42,000 illegal immigrants from countries other than Mexico. In the past, these would have been sent to an immigration court where cases take an average of one year to be processed. Now, these immigrants will be immediately returned to their home nation.

I can hear them now; "Mr. Border Patrol man, can I have my video camera back?"

Posted by: Degenerate Artist at August 10, 2004 7:52 PM

Kamran Akhtar CERTAINLY was a busy boy.Not everyone of course wants to see pictures of dams and skyscrapers in holiday pics unless you belong
to that Tourist Org. called Al Quaeda.
DEGENERATE ARTIST Good news re: Border.

Posted by: Morgane at August 10, 2004 9:21 PM

This is good news about the border except one thing's missing: Mexican illegals are costing all of us money too, and they should be booted out of here along with everyone else......

Say goodbye Muslims, your time in this nation is limited. No Sharia, no Caliphate, just dishonor and shame for you as we 86 you out of the country you contribute nothing but trouble to, the United States of America.

Posted by: DCWatson at August 10, 2004 10:37 PM

Below is the usual rant from Muslim leaders every time suspected terrorists are rounded up,remember,the Muslims named below have all said in public that the USA caused the 9/11 attacked because they let the terrorists live among them and didn't arrest any dispite immigration or Visa violations. Now that the Canadian Government took their advice and rounded up 19 Muslim male Pakistani's here illegally,they still bitch about being Innocent until proven guilty.
I point this out because the story below is pure propaganda to feed into the anti-American mindset of CAIR Canada and the Saudi funded Muslim Organization in Canada that are demanding Sharia Law in Canadian Courts.
The upper-case words are to show a pattern for the endless tripe and why it's displayed on a Canadian webpage.I did edit the Lawyer's spelling mistakes,and they call us infidel-pigs.

Here's a few FACTS these Lawyer's failed to tell the Media even during the mass rally's and protests to free them.
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1.
They were all Muslim males.

2.
They entered Canada on forged documents and
false Identity on the forged papers.

3.
They were Students that bought enrollment papers from a defuncted "Mail-order College" to get approved for entering Canada.

4.
Two of them were still in a Flying School that gave lessons right near a NUCLEAR POWER plant.

5.
All 19 were Pakistani's arriving around the same time and settling in the same Toronto Neighbourhood.

6.
All 19 never attended the "Mail order" College office or even knew where it was.

7.
All 19 were Illegal immigrants since none reported to the RCMP or Immigration when their Student Visa's expired several months earlier.

8.
All 19 were about the same age.

9.
All 19 were sheltered by other Muslims that made a free will choice to not protect Canada,and gave free legal advice about overstaying a Visa and claiming "Refugee" status.

10.
All weren't Canadian as the media was mislead to believe,the MCC and CIC implied in their posters that "It's not illegal to be Pakistani in Canada" which made you infer they were Citizens.

11.
All 19 were nabbed for Immigration and Visa
offences along with others,they just happened to be the Pakistani/Muslim/student/forged papers/fake ID/and fake College sector of the round-up.
At present,supporters from CIC and MCC are very quiet,16 of these Peaceful followers of Islam got the well deserved boot to where ever their from,3 have Muslim Lawyers coaching them on their claim of "Refugee" to get free HealthCare,Dental,Drugs,Education,housing,and
even protection from deportation because the Supreme Court ruled they are now "Victims" and
criminal records while in Canada can't be used to deport a 'Refugee". This was how Ahmed Ressam got to live 5 years in Canada on welfare while stealing tourists ID's at Hotels and using stolen Charge-cards.He's the Millenium bomber caught at Port Angelese with a trunk of explosives.
This is why America must tighten the boarder,the fact that so many Muslims bitch about the delays and ID checks when going to the USA,sets off alarm bells that they need access to Americans for some odd reason.
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Here's the Muslim perspective on this human rights violation to these innocent followers
of Islam and readers of the Quran that obviously allows criminal acts and disobeying the Laws od Non-Islamic States.
Ya gotta love that Allah.
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*Shameful*
TORONTO, August 27, 2003

The Muslim Canadian Congress(MCC) has strongly protested the depiction of Pakistanis as ‘Sunni Muslim Extremists’ by RCMP and other law enforcement agencies. The organization has asked the RCMP to unconditionally apologize for this act of racial profiling. The group also condemned the arrest of 19 INNOCENT men on August 14 and demanded the immediate release of these detained men. MCC, which is a grass roots Muslim organization based in Toronto,was reacting to the assertion by the agencies that the men were terror suspects simply because they were born in the Pakistani province of Punjab.
Jehad Aliweiwi( Muslim LAWYER),a founding member of the MCC said,“the allegations against these young men are so flimsy,they befit a cheap post 9/11 paperback thriller,not worthy of publication even in backwater Texas”. He said that the THREE van loads of so called EVIDENCE reminded him of the truckloads of evidence Colin Powell presented to the UN Security Council and therefore must be taken with a pinch of salt. Arif Raza(Muslim LAWYER), a community activist organizing part of the defence team for the "Toronto 19" said, the RCMP actions are outrageously RACIST. “They most likely would not have been arrested and detained, if it was not for the pre-conceived RACIST notion prevalent among law enforcement agencies that people from Pakistan,the Arab world and other Muslims are violent and prone to religious extremism.” Reacting to the statement by Terry McKay, the Lawyer representing the Minister of Immigration, who said, “I guess the easiest way of putting it is there is a suggestion they might in fact be perhaps a sleeper cell for Al Qaeda,” Arif Raza said the lawyer’s statement indicates the Government's evidence is at most speculation and a product of fertile imagination.Amina Sherazee(LAWYER), another member of the Muslim Canadian Congress and civil rights LAWYER decried the climate of RACIAL profiling and the import of US styled hysteria about terrorism. She said, “Such hysteria and false propaganda led to an immoral war in Iraq, the death of TENS OF
THOUSANDS over there, and the illegal arrest, detention and deportation of thousands of innocent human beings under the NSEERS pogrom.” The American mistakes should not be duplicated in Canada, she added. Tarek Fatah(Former CIC member),founder of the MCC(Muslim Canadian Congress.org) said,“If our Constitutional Rights under the Charter are to survive, then the rule of law must prevail and the 19 accorded due process”. He said OUR forefathers fought and died for these rights around the world. “Men in uniform can destroy these significant and fundamental achievements, if they are left unsupervised by the Courts and unregulated by democratically elected civilian institutions,” Tarek Fatah added.

They want us dead and the Quran endorses it,these Imam's know it and like to cite Verses
out of context to project a Peaceful faith,

thanks for reading this.

ALA SUX

Posted by: ala-sux at August 10, 2004 10:53 PM

Well, after all of the murders Al Capone committed and/or ordered, after all of his blatant disregard for prohibition, and every other law he broke, he was finally imprisoned for tax evasion.

Muslims want to manipulate our constitution. No one can do that better than the ones that wrote it. They will continue to learn this. We will win by any means necessary. They've chosen the wrong nation to target. I like Canada, but the Canadian people need to rid themselves of the current Government there.

Anyone person or body of Government who represents a free society that would allow the implementation of sharia law, even in it's meekest form, should be removed from office.

Posted by: DCWatson at August 10, 2004 11:27 PM

Well, after all of the murders Al Capone committed and/or ordered, after all of his blatant disregard for prohibition, and every other law he broke, he was finally imprisoned for tax evasion.

Muslims want to manipulate our constitution. No one can do that better than the ones that wrote it. They will continue to learn this. We will win by any means necessary. They've chosen the wrong nation to target. I like Canada, but the Canadian people need to rid themselves of the current Government there.

Anyone person or body of Government who represents a free society that would allow the implementation of sharia law, even in it's meekest form, should be removed from office.

Posted by: DCWatson at August 10, 2004 11:27 PM

Sorry.

Posted by: DCWatson at August 10, 2004 11:28 PM

Judging from how well he handled the patrol officer's field interview, it shouldn't be too difficult to reconstruct his social network and shake the tree enough to flush some more of his buddies out. Busts like this also have a tendency to tickle the wire so the No Such Agency is probably already reaping the harvest.

Posted by: Hulegu Khan at August 11, 2004 12:40 AM

ALA-SUX
Have been to CairCan site and my word, they're an agressive and arrogant bunch. Was AMAZED to read the long list of Muslim demands from 'an employer' to suit their religious and cultural needs.[If I was an employer, I'd tell them to go to Hell!] What's this,'OUR FOREFATHERS FOUGHT AND
DIED FOR THESE RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD!! When did the Muslims in Canada do that, enlighten me please?? Let them stomp around making themselves
throughly disliked by Non Muslim Majority : there
will come a time [soon] when you will see them humble and pleading to stay on board the Canada Gravy Train.

Posted by: Morgane at August 11, 2004 3:08 AM

*Jehad* Aliweiwi( Muslim LAWYER)

Even his name is incriminating.

Posted by: Joe Bananas at August 11, 2004 6:19 AM

I work for Bank of America in uptown Charlotte and I must say this doesn't surprise me that they've finally found suspicious evidence indicating that Charlotte may be targeted.

Charlotte is the second largest financial center in the US after NYC and is the headquarters of Bank of America and Wachovia, the two largest financial institutions in the US after CitiGroup and JP Morgan Chase. The Bank of America Corporate Center dominates the skyline and can be seen 20 miles away in some areas. Tryon Street cuts through the heart of the city and goes right past the front door of the Corporate Center. It is only closed for special events but otherwise you can drive right past it at will. Some, like myself, would like to see the uptown portion of Tryon turned into a pedestrian zone, like Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House.

Ever since 9/11 I've been concerned about the Corporate Center. The name "Bank of America" alone makes it a target. The fact that Charlotte has enjoyed blissful anonymity from national and worldwide attention despite its high value targets has been a blessing--but I worry that its lower profile as compared to NYC or DC makes it a soft target.

A few months ago while walking to a meeting, I too saw a suspicious looking young Arab man on Tryon and 9th Street with a video camera filming the Odell Building, one of Bank of America's many towers in uptown Charlotte, albeit a less impressive building compared to the Corporate Center. He was alone. What I remember most was the angry, serious look on his face while filming which seemed unbecoming of a "tourist." He looked very suspicious. I didn't have my cell phone with me at the time and I didn't see any officers around to alert. I thought about following him but I was late to a meeting, and besides, I thought I may just have been paranoid. Later, I told everyone I knew about this experience long before this latest arrest. I kick myself now when I think about it--especially since the guy I saw was not the same person arrested.

Posted by: gregoryscott at August 11, 2004 7:01 AM

Awareness is the key.....GregoryScott....at least you are aware...as we say in Australia...Good on ya mate.

Posted by: Joe Bananas at August 11, 2004 7:42 AM

The FBI puts out on their website a good list of what to look for and what to write down, and great if you have a camera yourself, when you try to observe suspicious activity in regards to this kind of thing.

Many police officers carry a copy of it in their police unit when they spot suspicious behavior--It also gives phone numbers Etc. I would encourage all concerned citizens to carry a copy of it.

Posted by: Mackie at August 11, 2004 8:58 AM

The website for the FBI is "www.fbi.gov"

--use your mouse to reach the page on how to prevent terrorism which is found in the top right hand corner---make some pages for your friends and working associates, also post them in your office for everyone to see. You will need to get the local number of your cities terrorism task force written or typed on it. --

This can really help people to become more aware and observant in your community.

Posted by: Mackie at August 11, 2004 9:14 AM