Immigration Policies After 9/11 Case Study

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Many people have done studies on immigration policies after 9/11. Professor Sameer Ashar of UC Irvine school of law analyzed the treatment of his clients and the methods of immigration. Ashar's client was a Pakistani man that arrived in 2000 on a visa. He had come to America for work and to build a better life for his family. He was living in the basement of a mosque where he was working when INS officers questioned and arrested him in mid-November. Ashar’s client was held in Passaic County Jail for almost three weeks before INS issued a Notice to Appear and Warrant for Arrest of Alien. “INS failed to follow the regulation it adopted on September 20, 2001, allowing it to detain individuals without charge for 48 hours or for ‘an additional reasonable

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