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davkakach:
Of course, the Somali muzzie criminal is represented by (who else if not) a Jewish lawyer---Emily Goldberg.   :-\

Also notice the title of this New York Slimes article, which was meant to be politically-correct and intentionally-misleading, but ended being just meaningless and stupid.  (What wave?!  Whose safety?!  Why should we care?!)   ???


Man’s Deportation to Somalia Sets Off a Wave of Concern Over Safety
By Nina Bernstein
The New York Times, November 22, 2006

On the evening of Nov. 2, a young corporate lawyer in New Jersey received a frantic call from a charity client, a 46-year-old Harlem grocery clerk with a history of petty crime. He was in custody on an airplane in Newark on his way to Mogadishu, the capital of his native Somalia, a country so dangerous that to the lawyer’s knowledge, no one had been deported there in years.

Mohamad Rasheed Jama was recently deported to Somalia.

The courts were closed, and a federal judge who heard an emergency motion the next day ruled that the clerk, Mohamad Rasheed Jama, was already outside United States jurisdiction.

So, after a stop in Nairobi, where he was handed over to Kenyans, Mr. Jama stepped off an airplane in Mogadishu — and into the hands of Islamist militants, who soon accused him of being an American spy and began demanding money.

“They were extremely angry,” said his lawyer, Emily B. Goldberg, relating the last frightened call she got from Mr. Jama, who had spent four years in immigration detention in New Jersey awaiting deportation to the land he left at 18. “He asked me if there was anything I could do. I told him in the American system, there was nothing more I could do.”

Mr. Jama, whose deportation was based on a 1989 conviction for owning an unlicensed gun, is among the first Somalis to be repatriated against his will since the United States Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 last year that the lack of a functioning central government in Somalia did not bar such deportations. About 4,000 Somalis nationwide are eligible for immediate deportation under the ruling, which turned on the syntax of a Congressional statute.

The case of Mr. Jama, who has a 9-year-old American daughter in Harlem, highlights issues the nation has wrestled with for decades, such as what to do with deportable immigrants who can neither be detained indefinitely nor safely repatriated, and what should limit the government’s discretion to decide their fate.

Conditions in Somalia have worsened in recent months, moving to the brink of an all-out regional war. In June, Mogadishu was seized by Islamic militias suspected of harboring leaders of Al Qaeda. The militias, after routing warlords backed by the United States, began imposing a Taliban-like regime of strict religious courts.

A week before his abrupt departure, Mr. Jama’s volunteer lawyers filed a habeas petition on his behalf, arguing that his continued detention in the Middlesex County Jail in New Jersey was unlawful because “it is simply beyond dispute that effecting his removal to Somalia would be impossible.”

Michael W. Gilhooly, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, confirmed Mr. Jama’s deportation, declining to say whether more were under way. But at a federal appeals hearing in Seattle last month, a Justice Department lawyer said that three people had been deported to Somalia since the Supreme Court ruling, after volunteering.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/22/nyregion/22deport.html

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The only immigrants that we should take in from Africa are the descendants of European settlers.

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