FC: Canadian programmers in San Jose jailed five days for no reason

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 11:07:07 -0800
From: Brad Templeton <brad () templetons com>
To: declan () well com
Subject: Canadian programmers in San Jose jailed for 5 days for no reason
Organization: http://www.templetons.com/brad

You may be interested in the story of Faramarz Farahani and other
high-tech workers in California who, trying to do the right thing
on the advice of their lawyers, went to clear up immigration paperwork.
Farahani is a Canadian who was born in Iran, as was another man.

In his case, he had overstayed his visa by 2 days.  When he went to
the INS, they were too busy, and rather than having him come back
when they didn't have so many people on staff, they jailed him,
sending him on a Con Air junket, eventually to a San Diego jail,
where, in the holiday spirit, he had to sleep in a crowded cell on
a concrete floor while INS agents woke them every 15 minutes to
ask questions.

Only because he had help from his silicon valley employer and because
he had good English did he make it out after only 5 days of fun.

Welcome to America!


http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/TGAM/20021226/ULOCKN/Headlines/headdex/headdexInternational_temp/13/13/19/

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=farahani&btnG=Search+News




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