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THE UNITED STATES' worst bureaucracy, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), is at it again. Devoid of compassion and ignorant of the word mercy, this mean-spirited agency is as close as America gets to the Gestapo; it terrorizes random individuals whose "crimes" are moot and who certainly have never...
While the United States government professes to value justice and to adhere to due process in all its actions, the INS exercises an arbitrary police power out of place in a free society. Granted, it is a necessary agency. But in protecting our borders, it oversteps its powers and exercises...
Hardly accountable to anyone, the INS inteprets laws as it wishes--often contrary to the intent of Congress--and introduces unnecessary fear into the lives of basically innocent individuals. It, and it alone, decides who can stay in this country and who must go.
Lara, author of If You Plant Winds, You Will Harvest Storms, a 1982 book profiling three leaders of the Colombian rebel group M-19, told reporters she had no idea why she was detained. "Maybe they didn't like the book," she shrugged. From mid-1983 to early 1984, Lara...
The INS insists otherwise. "We're not just keeping people out based on their ideology," protests INS Spokesman Verne Jervis. "We keep them out based on solid information that they are coming to this country to commit serious mischief." Lara's attorney, Arthur Helton, of the New York City-based...