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Sabag won't discuss why she decided to drop anchor in Findlay, but INS officials believe they know her reasons. They suspect that Sabag and her Israeli peers were peddling toy helicopters in three Toledo-area malls. That violates the terms of her i-94 tourist visa, which states in bright red letters, "Warning: a non immigrant who accepts unauthorized employment is subject to deportation." It is possible Rachel and her comrades discovered the jobs via a newspaper ad that targeted young Israelis and promised to expedite legal papers in return for mall training. David Leopold, a lawyer handling...
...York City, where he was studying computer programming at Queensborough Community College. At a 5 a.m. stop in Mobile, Ala., Javed's bus was searched by border-patrol agents as part of a series of routine inspections. When it was discovered that Javed was holding an expired visa, he was arrested and sent to the Stone County Correctional Facility in Wiggins, Miss...
Overstaying a visa is a civil violation, but Javed was placed with the criminal population inside the prison dormitory. Things went wrong immediately. "There were other inmates in there," says Javed, 20, "and they started giving me strange kinds of looks and talking to one another." Javed says a hulking man pulled him aside and offered some advice: "You can't stay in here. You better get your ass out of here." The words were punctuated with punches to Javed's face. Soon other prisoners joined in. Some called him names, including "bin Laden." One attacker promised that "this...
...Guidelines for the Interviews Regarding International Terrorism," sent to all U.S. Attorneys: "You should remember to ask the catch-all question whether the individual is aware of any criminal activity whatsoever, whether related to terrorism or not." Since lying to a federal officer can get a person with a visa deported, and since drinking under age 21, for instance, is illegal, this could technically be used to send an interviewee back to Beirut. With such stakes, Mohammed, for one, isn't telling his parents about this until it's over. "My mother would totally, absolutely freak out," he says...
...dedicated terrorist who planned to join his Hamburg roommates Mohammed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi and their frequent companion Ziad Al Jarrah as the 20th hijacker in the September 11 terror attacks. Binalshibh had registered at the Florida Flight Training Center, attended by Jarrah but was denied a visa because the State Department feared a poor Yemeni would remain in the U.S. illegally. (Atta, a middle class Egyptian with a good command of English, had no problem obtaining visas, nor did the other hijackers - 15 Saudis, two UAE citizens and one Lebanese...