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This 3 page paper discusses immigration and the Homeland security efforts which may be overstepping constitutional issues. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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for the duration of World War II. Upon their release, they cried, "Never again." And yet, it did happen again. It has happened again. According to a New York Times
Article titled: Panel Calls Policies on Immigration Ineffective by Michael Janofsky, the countrys policies continue to impose unconstitutional actions against certain segments of the population based solely upon their ethnic
backgrounds. But in the wake of September 11, 2001, many people are willing to overlook the shame of the past and to allow these practices to continue in the name
of National Security. But is it really in the nations best interests? One panel which was convened to investigate the 9/11 attacks concluded that at least one program that had
been adopted to identify and deport known terrorists was "so fruitless that it was discontinued after less than a year"(Janofsky 2004). The practice that they are referring to allowed certain
suspected persons of Middle Eastern descent or Muslim belief to be rounded up and interrogated, without benefit of a lawyer or representation, for months. These legal hearings were closed-door hearings
and no transcripts were kept. "Clearly the government was overreaching," states legislative counsel, Timothy Edgar(Janofsky 2004). Edgar goes on to state that when the American Civil Liberties Union heard about
the arrests and the consequent interrogations that they were outraged and told officials that these tactics would not prove to be effective, if history had taught them anything. However, offering
a counter to those accusations, the Justice Department stated that the program in question had arrested and deported hundreds of immigrants who had been shown to have definite ties to
known terrorist operations. Janofsky argues in his article, however, that the Justice Department glosses over the fact that of the one hundred that were deported, nearly seven hundred were detained
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