Immigrant says FBI tried threats to make him spy

[Judi Lynn]

Aug. 12, 2006, 1:20AM
Immigrant says FBI tried threats to make him spy
He was told he would be deported if he didn't agree, Muslim tells papers

By LEE ROMNEY
Los Angeles Times

SAN FRANCISCO — The document that federal agents handed to Yassine Ouassif to justify his deportation contained startling language: ``The United States government has reason to believe that you are likely to engage in terrorist activity.''

Ouassif was in exclusive company. Since Sept. 11, only five people have faced that ominous charge. Ouassif was about to become the sixth.

The slip of paper offered no details on what was behind the accusation.

As federal officials took him into custody in December, they told the 24-year-old Moroccan - a permanent resident who had moved to California nine months before the terrorist attacks - that he would be taken to a detention facility in Arizona. He could fight deportation from there, but it would take at least two years, they said. And they assured him he would fail.
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http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4112103.html

[MADem]

1. Way to engender loyalty in one's recruits!! Threats and intimidation,

yeah, sure, that's the ticket!!!

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Wow, talk about harrassment

Months of being detained, turned back from flying, having his green card confiscated without any apparent justification. As a result, he's dropped out of the course. He was a man who looked set, having gone through all the normal legal processes, to become a perfectly normal American resident (and, I'd guess, a citizen, eventually). Now he'll probably earn less, and pay less taxes, and he'll have a mistrust of the US.

[High Plains]

3. Motherfucking pigs. These are the thugs who "protect" us.

They pull the same shit with the drug war. Fuck 'em.

[Marie26]

4. kick

Americans whine about the rights they've lost, but immigrants are the ones who are really being targeted & abused by the new Bushco. regulations. No right to a trial, no right to an attorney, and you're deported, or possibly "rendered" to another country for torture.