IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE(INS)

  • Democracy Now! May 28, 2003

    Hour 1: Having invaded Iraq, Bush and his Hawks are Now Getting Ready to go for Regime Change in Tehran; A New Report Reveals that the Bush Administration had Planned to Invade Iraq as Early as December; You Back the Attack, We ll Bomb Who We Want! – A collection of remixed war posters Hour…

  • Democracy Now! May 28, 2003

    Arcata City Council Criminalizes Compliance with USA Patriot Act; Supreme Court Refuses to Hear an Appeal on the Hundreds of Secret Deportation Hearings for Immigrants Detained after September 11th; Government Investigates Allegations of Abuse in Two Immigration facilities INTRO: Behind the INS Curtain, a report from Noah Reibel; Howard Zinn and Arundhati Roy: A Conversation…

  • Democracy Now! May 5, 2003

    Patriot Raid: Citing homeland security & Patriot Act, INS raids NYC restaurant, questions staff at gunpoint and detains patrons; Operation Homeland Resistance: As immigration detainees complain about mistreatment in jail, a coalition of activists plan new campaign to oppose the war at home; As the US considers normalizing relation with the Indonesian army, we talk…

  • Democracy Now! May 5, 2003

    Hour 1: Israeli troops shoot dead another journalist in the Occupied Territories, according to witnesses: James Miller was an award-winning documentary filmmaker who was famous for his piece on Afghanistan, Beneath the Veil; 33 years ago this weekend, US National Guardsmen fired into a crowd of people at Kent State University who were protesting the…

  • Democracy Now! April 3, 2003

    Hour 1: U.S. forces close in on Baghdad from two directions: We go to the Iraqi capital to talk with umembedded reporter May Ying Welsh; Kesbeh family arrives in Jordan after being deported from Houston: We talk with them from a refugee camp where the family of nine now lives near penniless in a single…

  • Democracy Now! April 3, 2003

    U.S. forces close in on Baghdad from two directions: We go to the Iraqi capital to talk with umembedded reporter May Ying Welsh; Kesbeh family arrives in Jordan after being deported from Houston: We talk with them from a refugee camp where the family of nine now lives near penniless in a single bedroom; Green…

  • Democracy Now! March 11, 2003

    Anti-war protesters plan for massive civil disobedience in Washington next week; Immigrant rights groups prepare for a fourth round of mass deportations of Pakistani detainees; Police in Montpelier, Vt. photograph student protesters & ask for surveillance help from the local media: Meanwhile in Minnesota, law enforcement identifies student anti-war group as possible threat; A bigger…

  • Democracy Now! March 11, 2003

    Hour 1 :: Anti-war protesters plan for massive civil disobedience in Washington next week; Immigrant rights groups prepare for a fourth round of mass deportations of Pakistani detainees; Police in Montpelier, Vt. photograph student protesters & ask for surveillance help from the local media: Meanwhile in Minnesota, law enforcement identifies student anti-war group as possible…

  • Democracy Now! January 10, 2003

    Renowned defense attorney Michael Tigar files motion to dismiss John Ashcroft s charges that lawyer Lynne Stewart is supporting terrorists: we talk with the man whose clients have included Angela Davis, Abbie Hoffman and Terry Nichols (of Oklahoma City bombing-fame); Today, on the deadline for all males over 16 from a dozen Muslim countries to…

  • Democracy Now! January 23, 2003

    College students, beware of cutting classes: INS jails and threatens to deport foreign students for taking less than 12 credits; Electronic tracking of international students begins Jan. 30: Schools must transmit students grades, course loads, majors, addresses to the INS and State Department; The Supreme Court of Venezuela suspends a referendum on President Hugo Chavez…