Monday, March 03, 2003

POLICE STATE USA

Monitor: Pakistani Families Flee U.S. To Seek Canada Asylum

With a February 21 deadline for "special registration" with the U.S.
authorities fast approaching, hundreds of Pakistani families wait
nervously at the Canadian border, hoping for the chance to apply for asylum.
Probably for all of them, it is the worst nightmare of their lives -- an
unthinkable "can't happen here" scenario for people who have called America home
for years. But the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is now
requiring males over 16 from 25 countries -- all Muslim nations, plus
North Korea -- to be fingerprinted, photographed, and show proof of their
identity.

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