Mass arrests of Muslims in California

There was a time when many Marxists were accused of "paranoia" or of being "inflexible" in their belief that the civil liberties granted by capitalism were not sacred and therefore should not be respected. .  Marxists, and working class people in general, were told to vote for one or another of the capitalists and to obey the fundamental rules of capitalism -- even though the capitalist class, itself, would easily abandon those rules when it chose to. So now we have massive, secret round-ups and imprisonment first of Muslims, then???  As the old saying goes: "First they came for the Jews, but I......"

 

 

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World - Reuters

Hundreds of Muslim Immigrants Rounded Up in Calif.

Thu Dec 9,12:05 AM ET

By Jill Serjeant

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hundreds of Iranian and other Middle East citizens were in southern California jails on Wednesday after coming forward to comply with a new rule to register with immigration authorities only to wind up handcuffed and behind bars.

Shocked and frustrated Islamic and immigrant groups estimate that more than 500 people have been arrested in Los Angeles, neighboring Orange County and San Diego in the past three days under a new nationwide anti-terrorism program. Some unconfirmed reports put the figure as high as 1,000.

The arrests sparked a demonstration by hundreds of Iranians outside a Los Angeles immigration office. The protesters carried banners saying "What's next? Concentration camps?" and "What happened to liberty and justice?."

A spokesman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service said no numbers of people arrested would be made public. A Justice Department (news - web sites) spokesman could not be reached for comment.