600 immigrants detained; secret hearings

600 immigrants detained on visa violations, subject to secret h earings and deportation since Sept 11. This is the stench of fascism

From: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/3683092.htm
Kary Moss, executive director of the ACLU of Michigan:
"The implications are very serious," Moss said. "If none of these people have been charged with any criminal law violations then John Ashcroft has essentially on his own created two systems of justice in this country."

Visa violations are usually not a cause for deportation or jailing.

This is all in response by the INS to a letter request for information by Rep. Carl Levin of Michigan.

We continue to be treated to a numbers game:
"In the early months of the investigation, Justice Department officials said that up to 1,200 people had been detained nationally. But the letter says 752 individuals had been detained by the INS in connection with the terror probe, and of those 611 had secret hearings. It's unclear why there is a discrepancy between the detainee numbers, and that's one of the questions Levin wants answered. The INS still has 81 people in custody, according to the letter."

A government that promotes secrecy, star chamber proceedings, witchhunts, finks, stoolpigeons and spies is no government at all. The prattle about the US being democratic should be seen finally as the lie it always was. And remember, today it is the immigrants, tomorrow it is anyone else. In fact, they are already jailing citizens indefinitely without trial or counsel. When this nightmare finally ends, just don't say you didn't know. The information is here and it is time to organize the unorganized.