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Protest "Special Registration": Thurs 4/10, noon, JFK Fed. Bldg
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Wed Apr 9 22:49:41 2003
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Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 22:47:56 -0400
From: Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>
Protest "Special Registration"
Solidarity with Arab, Muslim and South Asian Students and Workers
Thrusday, April 10, 2003 - noon
JFK Federal Building, Government Center, Boston
(by govt ctr T on green and blue lines)
International students and workers from throughout the region will converge on
the Boston office of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services
(formerly INS) of the Department of Homeland Security for coordinated morning
registration as part of the government's "Special Registration Program," which
targets Arad, Muslim and South Asian men. These members of our community must
submit to photographing and fingerprinting or face severe legal penalties. On
the first registration deadline, more than 1,000 immigrant men in California
were summarily arrested and thrown into crowded detention facilities. This is
only the most well reported incident: untold numbers of immigrant men have
been
silently imprisoned in various parts of the country, including students who
have been imprisoned for being a few credits below full-time enrollment status.
"Special Registration" is a form of racial and religious persecution. Together
with the mass arrests, it is perhaps the most systematic and chilling assault
on fundamental human rights in this country since the internment of the
Japanese 61 years ago.
Registrants will join the noontime picketline after registration.
Sponsors:
New England Immigrant & Detainee Response Network
Graduate Employee Organization (GEO), UAW Local 2322, at UMass Amherst
for more info, contact neidrn@neidrn.org
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