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LOCAL Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights
JAN 10 - STOP INS SPECIAL REGISTRATION
CALL TO ACTION
Stop racial profiling!
End the illegal INS detentions and deportations!
Cancel INS "Special Registration Requirements"!
End the media blackout on this issue!
Stop racial profiling!
End the illegal INS detentions and deportations!
Cancel INS "Special Registration Requirements"!
End the media blackout on this issue!
FRIDAY JANUARY 10
*The time of the demonstration was changed because the INS office is onlyopen until 1pm on Fridays.
12pm - meet at the corner of Charles St. and Baltimore St. March past the Garmatz Federal Courthouse to the INS office in the Federal office building on Hopkins Plaza north of Lombard St.
12:15pm - press conference and demonstration outside the INS office.
12:30pm - March to the Baltimore Sun office at 501 N. Calvert St. to protest the lack of coverage this issue has recieved. Distribute flyers along the way.
*LEGAL OUTREACH*
>From 7:30am-1pm we will be conducting legal outreach to people in line to register. We will be making sure they have the advisory from the ACLU and ADC, and will have cell phones available for them to call these organizations for advice. Any people with legal expertise willing to volunteer their time will be greatly appreciated. Please contact gwrigh2-AT-umbc.edu if you can help.
On January 10, the second deadline for mandatory INS registration:
- We oppose the new mandatory registration of Middle Eastern, North African, and Asian men by the INS and Department of Justice.
- We protest the mass detention of over 2500 Iranians and other immigrants in December of 2002, and the deportation of many for legally non-deportable offences.
- We demand the media provide full coverage of these civil rights abuses.
January 10 is the second deadline for the "Special Call-In Registration Requirements." By this day, nonimmigrant men from Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Eritrea, Lebanon, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates or Yemen living in the United States are
required to register themselves anually with the INS (men with US citizenship or permanent residency are exempted).
Men from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan or Syria were previously required to register by December 16, and men from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are required to register by February 21. According to Democracy Now! news, 2500 people were detained after the December 16 deadline, as they voluntarily came forward to comply with orders that they subject themselves to fingerprinting and photographing. Many have since been released. Most those detained are here legally and were arrested without appropriate arrest warrants. Many were also denied bail or bond and have been slated for deportation for non-deportable offences (such as not registering a change of address within 10 days), without a hearing or any form of due process.
We are in opposition to the racist and humiliating treatment of all people who have been subjected to illegal arrest, deportation, and degrading treatment in the hands of the INS and Department of Justice. We abhorr the
labelling and scapegoating of these men, which reminds us of the internment of the Japanese during World War II, and other historical examples of bigotry and hatred.
We refuse to be the pawns of the Bush administration's campaign against immigrants, waged to justify a war against Iraq and the homeland surveillance crackdown. We urge all those outraged by the recent course of events to unite and protest against these racist and discriminatory policies.
16Azar (Iranian student activists), SUSTAIN (Stop US Tax-Funded Aid to Israel Now!), Towson Anti-Capitalists
To endorse this event, please email baltimoresustain-AT-yahoo.com, or call 410 675-9016
*The time of the demonstration was changed because the INS office is onlyopen until 1pm on Fridays.
12pm - meet at the corner of Charles St. and Baltimore St. March past the Garmatz Federal Courthouse to the INS office in the Federal office building on Hopkins Plaza north of Lombard St.
12:15pm - press conference and demonstration outside the INS office.
12:30pm - March to the Baltimore Sun office at 501 N. Calvert St. to protest the lack of coverage this issue has recieved. Distribute flyers along the way.
*LEGAL OUTREACH*
>From 7:30am-1pm we will be conducting legal outreach to people in line to register. We will be making sure they have the advisory from the ACLU and ADC, and will have cell phones available for them to call these organizations for advice. Any people with legal expertise willing to volunteer their time will be greatly appreciated. Please contact gwrigh2-AT-umbc.edu if you can help.
On January 10, the second deadline for mandatory INS registration:
- We oppose the new mandatory registration of Middle Eastern, North African, and Asian men by the INS and Department of Justice.
- We protest the mass detention of over 2500 Iranians and other immigrants in December of 2002, and the deportation of many for legally non-deportable offences.
- We demand the media provide full coverage of these civil rights abuses.
January 10 is the second deadline for the "Special Call-In Registration Requirements." By this day, nonimmigrant men from Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Eritrea, Lebanon, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates or Yemen living in the United States are
required to register themselves anually with the INS (men with US citizenship or permanent residency are exempted).
Men from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan or Syria were previously required to register by December 16, and men from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are required to register by February 21. According to Democracy Now! news, 2500 people were detained after the December 16 deadline, as they voluntarily came forward to comply with orders that they subject themselves to fingerprinting and photographing. Many have since been released. Most those detained are here legally and were arrested without appropriate arrest warrants. Many were also denied bail or bond and have been slated for deportation for non-deportable offences (such as not registering a change of address within 10 days), without a hearing or any form of due process.
We are in opposition to the racist and humiliating treatment of all people who have been subjected to illegal arrest, deportation, and degrading treatment in the hands of the INS and Department of Justice. We abhorr the
labelling and scapegoating of these men, which reminds us of the internment of the Japanese during World War II, and other historical examples of bigotry and hatred.
We refuse to be the pawns of the Bush administration's campaign against immigrants, waged to justify a war against Iraq and the homeland surveillance crackdown. We urge all those outraged by the recent course of events to unite and protest against these racist and discriminatory policies.
16Azar (Iranian student activists), SUSTAIN (Stop US Tax-Funded Aid to Israel Now!), Towson Anti-Capitalists
To endorse this event, please email baltimoresustain-AT-yahoo.com, or call 410 675-9016
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