Banished from the American dream

[fujiyama]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/04/26/deportee/index.html



April 26, 2004 | AMMAN, Jordan -- Sharif Kesbeh has just heard that America is deporting his eldest son to Jordan, and he's beaming. "The family will hopefully be reunited today, inshallah, after exactly one year," he says. Twenty-year-old Alaa had called his parents from the Detroit airport that morning to give them the news -- he was being freed from detention and would soon be put on a plane bound for Amman, the last of the Kesbehs to be expelled from the United States. "We prefer to live a miserable life anywhere rather than be detained," says Sharif as he and his family set off for Amman's Queen Alia International Airport to welcome Alaa home to a country where he's never lived before.

At 9:30 p.m., though, three hours after the plane lands, there's still no sign of the boy. Sharif, his wife, Asmaa, their five daughters and youngest son slump in their metal chairs, looking very small in the dim, gray expanse of the waiting room. Anticipation gives way to anxiety. Maybe, they worry, the Americans took Alaa back to jail. Or maybe he's being detained by the Jordanian security services, who might want to know why he's been thrown out of the country where he and his family made their home for 11 years.
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You need to substribe for the rest, but the article is disturbing. Check out the photo. I suppose these people are Ashcroft's terrorists...

I'm not one to brush off the threat of terrorism, but what's happening is absolutely appaling. It seems as though one mistake for an immigrant can get you kicked out.

If you're brown or Muslim, you're under suspicion.

[FloridaPat]

1. The biggest exporter of terrorists in the world is the US.

We funded and trained al Qauda. We support dictators and undermine democracies. It's getting harder to tell the good guys from the bad guys.

[RC]

2. That's because the "good guys" aren't.

Explain to me again how they are good guys when they lie, cheat, steal, kill so they line their own pockets with your money?