Word: detainer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...government is already taking quiet steps to reform the agency. INS commissioner James Ziglar, who took charge just two months ago, receives daily intelligence briefings. A rotating team of up to 1,000 INS agents works with the FBI to spot--and detain--suspects with immigration infractions. INS agents have also suddenly become sticklers for details. In January immigration officials grilled hijacking ringleader Mohamed Atta at Miami International Airport after he tried to use a visitor's visa to enter the country for flight school. They waved him through after ascertaining that his proper student visa was "pending." Today, border...
...been to get "tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime." Now the Prime Minister is getting tough on terrorism too. In his speech to the Labour Party conference last week, he announced tighter antiterrorism legislation, which will strengthen powers to freeze terrorist funds and to detain, deport and extradite suspects. Such proposals have concerned the civil libertarians who felt the new Terrorism Act, unveiled in February, already went...
...against terrorists. For the bureau, it seems, no kit ever has enough tools. Three years later, it is back for more. In the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001, Ashcroft seeks to give cops and the FBI yet more powers, including a provision that would allow the Justice Department to detain immigrants suspected of terrorism indefinitely, in contrast to the current time limit of 48 hours. A coalition of civil libertarians and conservatives suspicious of big government has slowed the bill's progress through Congress. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy told TIME that "the biggest danger is that [terrorists] unravel...
...days following the terrorist attacks, Attorney General John Ashcroft asked Congress to approve sweeping legislation granting the government unprecedented access to suspects? phone and electronic communications. Ashcroft has also appealed for the right to detain foreign nationals for unspecified periods of time without filing charges - essentially a suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. But Ashcroft isn?t going to get exactly what he wants, thanks to a peculiar coalition of left-leaning civil libertarians and right-leaning libertarians - united by their fear of government intrusion...
Last week Ashcroft also ordered that immigrant suspects, who could already be detained for 24 hours without being charged, can now be held for 48 hours, or longer in emergencies like that faced now. Eighty or so of the suspects detained so far in this investigation were originally held under that rule. Even at present just a handful have been brought up on formal charges. Foreign nationals in the U.S. are subject to treatment that the courts would forbid for American citizens. The 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act gives the FBI authority to monitor secretly persons suspected of espionage...