Regarding the NY5
Ivo Skoric
ivo at reporters.net
Tue Jul 16 20:11:47 CEST 2002
Regarding The New York Five case, two things strike me as unjust:
1) if this was a group of all-American drunk frat boys, and not five
guys with a strange accent, would the case been treated under the
Patriot Act and would the FBI be called in to investigate?
Particularly in the case of Bosnian who holds US citizenship, this
is a clear case of discrimination, I believe.
2) There were a Serb, a Croat and a Bosnian on the wrong side of
the gate - yet Serb and Croat were put in deportation proceedings,
while Bosnian wasn't. Why? Because the INS solved Bosnian
immigration cases on a "fast track", so the Bosnian is already a
citizen, while a Croat is in Kafkaesque asylum process for 8 years
already... This is, also, discrimination.
Ivo
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