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Registration Stirs Panic, Concern: Some Muslim Foreign Nationals Risk Arrest to Meet INS Deadline

Date: January 10, 2003
Authors: Dan Eggen and Nurith C. Aizenman
QUOTE: ...immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries, many risking arrest and deportation, have been flooding into U.S. immigration offices in advance of today's deadline to register for a controversial program that has already resulted in more than 500 detentions nationwide.

ABSTRACT: There is considerable controversy about the government's new requirement that men from countries identified as harboring terrorists (basically Arab countries) come to Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) offices for registration and interrogation. Among the issues in dispute are the value and reasonableness of collecting masses of data on Muslim men, what rights they should have during the process, and whether it's an effective anti-terrorism tool. --- D. Doernberg

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