Author: mopress

Below is a reply from Ralph Isenberg to an email query from the Texas Civil Rights Review. We were interested in news about his efforts to return the Suleiman twins home to America.–gm

Sadly, I have nothing to report about this family. Over the past several months I have stayed in contact with Ayman and offered what comfort I can merely sitting by my computer in Dallas. It will take an act far bigger than what I can produce to bring this family home.

At present, my immigration work is greatly reduced because frankly the work brings back too many painful memories of what I experienced to free my family.

I make no excuse for this. It teaches me the explosive result immigration has on families. Every member of my family feels the pain of what the government did to us. What they did was wrong. I was big enough to fight back and prevail. What about those that can not.

I hope one day to be able to continue the fight. Ayman and his family need me. Too many families have suffered.

To those that fight these wrongs, thank you. To those that have been hurt, I pray you prevail. No decent American should sleep well at night knowing how we treat foreign nationals. With my sleep are the nightmares of what might have been had I not prevailed.

Ralph Isenberg

Email from Riad Hamad received on Feb. 29, 2008. Posted by permission of Riad Hamad on March 1, then removed at his request on March 2. Reposted on May 1, 2008, with edits to remove mention of third parties–gm

We had a very unpleasant visit from the FBI and IRS agents yesterday morning and they walked out with more than 40 boxes of tax returns, forms, documents, books, flags, cds etc. The special agent said that they have a probable cause for money laundering, wire fraud, bank fraud..etc and I think that all of it stems from more than 35 years of watching me.

When I applied for my citizenship in 1996 the attorney asked for my record under the FOIC and got a file bigger than the NY city yellow pages with a lot of black lines to mark the names of the informants. . . .

When the special agent in charge was asked about the probable cause, he said that the judge knows but he could not tell us. Bottom line, I need help and was wondering if you know anyone who has time on his/her hand to help me as I am broke now because of my work for the children of Palestine and contribution to free the famlies from Hutto last year that cost me over 15000 dollars in legal, airline tickets and shipping their furniture.
Looking forward to hearing from you and thanks for your work for justice.

You can see some of my work through the links below which i think fermented the current situation.

Riad Elsolh Hamad

http://www.pcwf.org

http://www.marhabafrompalestine.com

By John Wheat Gibson

Although Rrustem is back with his family, the Department of Homeland Security still is trying to deport him, so the struggle is not over yet. They still are pursuing their suit to drug Rrustem before sending him to the assassins who are waiting for him in Albania.

Furthermore, when I went to the Dallas District Office to pay the bond, the DHS made me wait 6 1/2 hours before they would take the money. All the paper work should have taken no more than 40 minutes.

The DHS made me waste a whole work day simply because they wanted to humiliate me and Rrustem’s relatives who were with me, to remind us who is the boss. They wanted to teach us again that to Michael Chertoff’s Department of Homeland Security we the people of the United States are nothing but a bunch of drugged cockroaches crawling around in a bottle.

Rrustem owes his freedom I think to the brave and tenacious Congressman Gohmert, more than to anyone else. I am extremely grateful to everyone who has followed Rrustem’s case thus far.

If Rrustem actually eventually does get a chance to present his case for asylum to an immigration judge, which the US Constitution (but, so far, not the bureaucrats or courts) says he is entitled to, then we will owe special thanks to Congressman Gohmert and Scott Lively. I wish all our elected officials took seriously their oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States as Congressman Gohmert has done in Rrustem Neza’s case.

Please continue to demand that the bureaucracy respect Rrustem Neza’s constitutional right to have his case heard by a competent immigration judge. From the very start, that is ALL we have been asking for–the right to have Rrustem’s case heard in the immigration court. As the great Yogi Berra said, “It ain’t over til it’s over.”

John Wheat Gibson is an immigration attorney in Dallas.

Sharon Riegie Maynard of SisterSpace.Net interviews Jay Johnson-Castro on the eve of his walk from Abilene to Haskell.

Find the MP3 link here

Also noted with appreciation, Amy Goodman’s column on Hutto, and Laura Carlson’s deconstruction of Operation Return to Sender.