Ashcroft and the Immigrant Round-up
Alex Gourevitch of American Prospect exposes Ashcroft's foreigner registration program as perhaps not being mandated by Congress at all. As to whom the program has brought in so far:
To date, the program has not been a complete waste of effort: Martinez points out that it has led to the arrest of "a wife beater, narcotics dealer and very serious violent offenders." But that isn't exactly the same as catching terrorists. And if what we really want is to catch wife beaters, narcotics dealers and violent offenders, the Justice Department should simply require everyone in America to show up and register.RTWT.
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