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Inside the U.S. Roundup of Muslims

By AAN Staff
december 30, 2002  07:05 pm
Inside the U.S. Roundup of Muslims
Hundreds of Muslim men were arrested earlier this month when they reported to INS offices to comply with a "special registration" program which required most male noncitizens over 16 who were born in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan and Libya to be fingerprinted, photographed and questioned. Ben Ehrenreich reports that the INS wasn't prepared for the number of people who came into register and were forced to automatically detain hundreds of men, who were subjected to humiliating arrests.
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