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*Originally posted by Fraudz: *
yeah %age matters so if there are 3 ppl here from lesotho and 2 of them are illegal, lesotho becomes an immigration priority, 66% illegal immigrants are a large percentage :)
anyways, it was lowlife indians who were overjoyed to see Pakistanis get under fire, and there are going to be lowlife Pakistanis who will be happy to see Indians get under fire.
Illegal aliens if caught need to be sent back, how hard is it to understand that whether you are caught due to some security measures or for floating bad checks, if you are found to be an illegal alien you could be deported.
The challenge is for those who are in limbo i.e. have pending applications for assylum and residency.
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Mr fraudia,
You are under the impression that Indians are rejoicing because Pakis are in the list. If Bangladesh can come to INS list today , India can definitely come tomorrow. Even if it is based purely on religion there are more number of muslims in India than many in the list.
Some 2 years back about 50 or 60 Indian IT professionals were arrested at Randolph airforce base, San Antonio, TX. They were working there since 4 years and many hard Grencards also. They all had valid visa and passed security clearance etc.
One fine morning INS people came to that place and asked all foreign workers to show their passport and visa. Since none of them carry these things to work anyway they were all handcuffed and taken to their apartments and bank lockers wherever they kept their passport and visa or greencard even after that they were taken to INS office. People from 2 companies were detained for an evening because paperwork submitted by their company in their visa application showed their place of work as Houston,Texas but they were working in San antonio which was 3 hrs drive from Houston.
Indian Tech lobby , Immigration Lawyers lobby, Silicon vally lobby , every Indian organization intervened. US State dept later regretted the incident.INS released them without any charges very next day. In between that humiliation to all these people were done.
INS has lots of power as far as foreigners are concerned. After Sep 11th do not expect any leniancy. Everybody is a suspect.