As recently as 2004, after a period in which immigration officials concentrated heavily on terrorism threats, enforcement of immigration laws against American business owners — as opposed to against individual migrants crossing the border — was almost nonexistent.
A gunman walked into a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee on Sunday and killed six worshipers preparing for a morning service, in what is being described as an act of "domestic terrorism," law enforcement officials said.
The Justice Department has blocked the departures of 87 foreign detainees who had been ordered deported or had agreed to go home, while investigators comb through information pouring in from overseas to ensure that they have no ties to terrorism, law enforcement officials say.
A6 NATION CHALLENGED A8-9 U.S. Delays Deportations To Check for Terrorist Links The Justice Department has blocked the departures of 87 foreign detainees who had been ordered deported or had agreed to go home, while investigators comb through information from overseas to ensure that they have no ties to terrorism, law enforcement officials said.
The document provides the latest example of how, in the name of fighting terrorism, law enforcement agencies around the country have scrutinized groups that legally oppose government policies.
In May, Britain's top counter-terrorism officer, Mark Rowley, said: "Our discussions over the next few months in terms of the spending rounds … around counter-terrorism, will make the point it's not simply about the counter-terrorism network enforcement, its about the strength of those other elements of policing".
IMAMS AS INFORMERS -- In America's war on terrorism, law-enforcement agencies have been recruiting and training a new kind of undercover agent: Muslim clerics.
They all wanted the benefit of his experience as a terrorism prosecutor and enforcement chief at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
During the trip the Saudis also committed themselves to carrying out a series of measures to combat terrorism, United States law enforcement and intelligence officials said.
The case appears to be the latest to fit a model in which, in the process of flushing out people they believe present a risk of terrorism, federal law enforcement officials have played the role of enabler.
