Operation Endgame

Department of Homeland Security is busy trying to implement a ten year plan, called Operation Endgame, to apprehend and deport all undocumented aliens by 2012. In essence, they have every right to deport undocumented aliens, however not at the cost of denying due process rights (read: human rights) to them and their children. People from immigrant communities (men, women, children, old people) are being rounded up, and this isn't just the South Americans. We're talking all 'foreign looking' people here.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is the agency set up to implement immigration law, is raiding workplaces, homes, even stopping people on streets to check their immigration status. In such a mass movement of arresting and deporting people, human rights are bound to be trampled upon, and they already have been. Does this mean if I have fair skin and light hair I will not be bothered by ICE? Granted the system always had a (very slight) bias against non-whites. But it has not been this blatant since the Civil Rights Movement and Brown v. Board of Education. Discrimination in any form is unacceptable, but when it is flaunted under the banner of law, even the law seems repulsive, and this undermines the whole system of justice.

Discrimination against people of color cannot be tolerated. Programs by ICE such as the 287(g) program which gives local and state police the power to stop people and check their immigration status are a way for people to make (more) judgments based on skin color. It is time everyone, irrespective of nationality, religion and race got together to protest these travesties of justice.

The first step is to gain knowledge about what is going on with the law- whether it is directly 'related' to you or not.At the end of the day, we are all co-existing and interdependent. By distancing ourselves from 'others' we are allowing the justice system to deteriorate, and who knows when that is going to come and bite us.

The second step is to spread knowledge and make our voices heard so anti-immigration groups and so-called nativists know that we are also loud and know our ish.
Only by helping others can we help ourselves.

Visit the FIRM website (http://fairimmigration.org) for more information.

Canada lifts ban on "Singh" and "Kaur"...

They're moving on to "Mohammad" and "Khan"...

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7008020055
and
http://www.theobserver.ca/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=633080&catname=Editorial&classif=

For the past many many many years Canada has been artistically implementing a lovely form of racial discrimination- by asking thousands of Sikh applicants to change their last names since Singh and Kaur are too "common". An interesting way to keep brown people away. I guess Canada finally caught up with the bhangra takeover, because the law has been rescinded. Let the punjabi domination begin!

Pakistan feels the Big Love...

I'm honored...

http://www.pal-c.org/U.S.HailsReinstatementofTopPakistaniJudge.html

Pakistan and Musharraf's legal turmoil

While security forces knocked militants dead in Islambad, the Supreme Court of Pakistan reinstated the now-canonized Saint Justice Chaudhry Iftikhar to his job. A piece of good news for our troubled land of the pure. Yet, as America threatens to weed out Bin Laden from the North, Pakistani liberals crib about the exceeding militarization of the country, and right wing idiots yell distorted slogans of their so-called jihad at Musharraf's 'modernist' government, those of us on the fringes wonder- who will wipe Mushy's tears now? Will he have to make peace with the Islamic faction, or the club-hopping-sexy-lady-politician types? (yes, we have a few of those). Is there a middle road in this quagmire?

Legally, strictly legally with no bottles of smuggled alcohol involved, Musharraf could not have been anything but 'content' with the Supreme Court's decision to reinstate Saint Iftikhar. To be otherwise would have been political suicide for him. Without outrightly overturning our tattered constitution, Musharraf could not have maligned the Court decision. And who really wants more anti-government rallies by those upholders of the Rule of Law?

On the other hand, the government was literally forced to open the notorious "red mosque" this week. By painting it lemon yellow they supposedly averted a crisis. Afterall only 20 odd people died in the most recent bomb blast in the red mosque vicinity. Why pander to these so called "Islamic" whacko's? Do they even know the essence of the religion? Who gives them a right to enforce their brand of Islam? I certainly haven't. Apparently the government took the liberty of doing that on my behalf through its mealy mouthed rhetoric. To oppose them would again be political suicide. But I frankly believe that is one suicide which would be justified.

Let me make my predictions- Pakistan will be bombed by its savior (make a wild guess who that might be)with a few random bombs being dropped outside of the 'bin laden territory' by 'mistake' - the North West Frontier Province will increasingly become disillusioned with the idea of being part of Pakistan and will start their independence movement, Balochi's being neglected especially after our government realized the recent flooding and its victims were not an international media attention grabber, will start waging war outside of Baluchistan, Punjabi's will keep eating tikka boti's at food street and pretending that the world revolves within the confines of punjab, while Sindhi's...well those Sindhi's never identified with Pakistan anyways, right Lahore? Phew! Where does that leave us? No where I'm afraid. And we wanted Kashmir??

Oh well, just food for thought. Good night and sweet dreams.