JACKSON Di M wrote: >Do we have any INS folks in this group .... My understanding is, and don't >quote me, but any person who enters USA on a work permit, visa and/or green >card are advised that they can be detained and/or held for no reason by the >INS. > For *any* reason? Or for suspicion of immigration violations? The former would be rather horrifying, and makes "legal resident" a fairly meaningless status if you can be arbitrarily detained by the state. I went through the INS procedures, and while I do remember the FBI background check, I do not recall being told about arbitrary detention. But there was a lot of paperwork, and I could easily have forgotten it. >As for your law enforcement comments - I was just like you, till I did a >ride-along. Quiet frankly. Law enforcement is a thankless job, they deal >with all the undesirables and they are "dammed if they do and dammed if they >don't". Everybody deserves credit and/or praise for doing there job. A >Deputy I went on a ride-along with saved a boy at Multnomah Falls. He took a >rope from his patrol car and scaled down a rock face to save this boys life. >There was nothing in the newspaper about it ... pretty sad. > I agree with all of that, and I am quite sure that most law officers don't get half the credit they deserve. The problem is that law officers have a great deal of authority, creating opportunity for abuse by a few bad apples in the batch. The treatment for that abuse opportunity is oversight, which is (in part) what the Bill of Rights (things like Miranda) are about. My issue is not with hard-working law officers, it is with the Federal administration seeking to strip away oversight protections. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html
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