flynn23 wrote: ] ] This is just stupid. If you were a terrorist would YOU show
] up
] ] for the INS roundup?
]
] that's exactly the point. It makes it much easier to catch the
] bad guys when everyone else is at the party across town. Nice try, but if this was the case then they wouldn't have arrested so many people. You are over estimating the intelligence of your government beaurocrats. 1. I don't have a problem with the round up, only with the arrests. 2. They arrested people for simple paperwork problems (failed to file a change of address form) and "other crimes" which presumably includes traffic warrants, something the INS usually doesn't care about. They arrested as many people as they possibly could. 3. They arrested enough people to cause a scare, so if they run a similar program in another state there will be a large number of people who would otherwise have shown up who will not show up because they are afraid (maybe they have a traffic warrant out). The result is that if the intent is to observe who doesn't show, than these efforts will be LESS EFFECTIVE in the future because of the arrests. If the government is crafty enough to run this as a decoy, then they are crafty enough to make sure they don't ruin its usefulness for this purpose in the future. 4. All they had to do with the people who had paper work problems is give them an opportunity to fix things. This would serve the purpose of stirring up the community enough to notice the odd man out, it would get the INS paperwork in order, and INS ends up looking like someone you can trust. 5. Not showing up is a pre-tense for deportation of registered aliens. People are afraid to show cause they'll get poped for a traffic warrant, and now the feds have a reason to deport them. 6. Basically, the simplest explanation is that this is a fishing expedition. They can't haul the whole community in for questioning directly, but they've found a loophole that lets them net at least a quarter of the community. 7. The use of force beyond necessity is the definition of tyranny. (See 4.) RE: Yahoo! News - Hundreds of Muslim Immigrants Rounded Up in Calif. | 
