Justice Department Goes After Illegal Middle Eastern Men

On February 8th , the Washington Post reported that they obtained an internal DOJ memo stating that Federal agents will soon begin apprehending and interrogating thousands of illegal Middle Eastern immigrants who have ignored deportation orders, seeking ways to prosecute any who have ties to terrorism and compiling the results of interviews in a new computer database. Moreover the memo instructs agents to look for ways to detain aliens on possible criminal charges rather than just expelling them. It is estimated that there are 314,000 individuals in the US who have ignored court orders to leave the US. The DOJ will focus on 6000 foreign nationals who are from countries with Al Queda strongholds. Approximately 1000 persons will be targeted next week. Civil Libertarian and Arab American groups, including the ADC, have expressed concern over the apparent profiling and “selective enforcement”.

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