This footage is from the protest in front of the INS building that took place from noon to 1pm at 444 Washington Street in San Francisco on June 13, 2003.
Speaker: Riva Enteen, Program Director
Organization: National Lawyers Guild
NLG’s Post 911 “Know Your Rights” Website
Riva Enteen in San Francisco (Small – 11 MB)
Audio – Riva Enteen in San Francisco (MP3 – 3 MB)

Riva Enteen, Program Director, National Lawyers Guild

(Excerpt) I remember when the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged the Japanese Internment as one of the most shameful moments in history…
But today, as we stand here, were looking at people who voluntarily went in to special register, and now 13,000 of them are facing deportation…
Patriot II says even U.S. born citizens can be deported. We shall not let this entire constitutional framework of this country be torn up before our eyes!
Now the NLG has a hotline for people contacted by the FBI or the INS as a result of 911, and it’s important that everyone knows that nobody has to talk to any governement agent, and they should call the guild for an attorney. Now we had some people, Iraqis, when they were questioned, they were contacted six times in one day by the FBI. And one man, six times in one day, said “No, I can’t talk to you until I talk to my attorney.” Don’t to talk to any government agent until you talk to an attorney.

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This footage is from the protest in front of the INS building that took place from noon to 1pm at 444 Washington Street in San Francisco on June 13, 2003.
Speaker: Jayashri Srikantiah, Staff Attorney
Organization: American Civil Liberties Union
Jayashri Srikantiah in San Francisco (Small – 11 MB)
Audio – Jayashri Srikantiah in San Francisco (MP3 – 4 MB)

Jayashri Srikantiah, Staff Attorney, ACLU

(Excerpt) Right after September 11th, President Bush and Congress expressed solidarity with Arab, Muslim and South Asian communities and warned against singling out members of those communities for the actions of terrorists. Unfortunately, the government’s actions stand in sharp contrast to its words.
The latest round of deportations announced by the government is only the most recent example of the Federal Government’s practice of ethnic skapegoating and stereotyping. What the governement is doing is targeting particular nationalities for aggressive enforcement of immigration law. What the government is doing is targeting “immigrants” instead of targeting “terrorists.”
The latest round of deportation follows other discriminatory policies including targeting of South Asian, Muslim and Arab communities for questioning, lengthy and secret detentions, secret deportations and other activities…
For immigrant communities, the promise of “due process of law” has been eroded. Even the government’s own reports recognize the government’s own discriminatory and shameful detention and deportation policies…
The government must stop targeting innocent people based on their ethnicity and religion. The government must stop disrupting the lives of thousands of innocent immigrant families. The government must stop equating “immigrants” with “terrorists.”

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This footage is from the protest in front of the INS building that took place from noon to 1pm at 444 Washington Street in San Francisco on June 13, 2003.
Speaker: Samina Faheem
Organization: American Muslim Alliance, Pakistan American Democratic Front
Samina Faheem in San Francisco (Small – 16 MB)
Audio – Samina Faheem in San Francisco (MP3 – 6 MB)

Samina Faheem, American Muslim Alliance, Pakistan American Democratic Front

(Excerpt) Today we are here to protest the deportation of 13,000 detainees due to the special INS registration…Since 911, Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians have been suffering the backlash and have lost almost all of their civil liberties and constitutional rights. We have been defending our loyalites and patriotism to America. Even though we are law abiding citizens — hard working citizens of the U.S., we have been labeled as terrorists.

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