>The publicity is already there. I originally found out about the story while reading the paper in the Phila airport on the way back from Thanksgiving. It was front page.
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I'm not disupting that this has received significant publicity. But the public does not respond to newspaper stories anymore - they get their news from televison. While front-page stories may generate enough publicity to force congressional action (I would hope so) a single 30 seconds spot on local news (especially if it's picked up by a couple of other stations) would (at least in my opinion) be enough to force action.




>>>>A miscarriage of justice --- Sure
>>>>Bureaucracy gone wild --- Maybe
>>>>Chance of an actual deportation --- 5%
>>>>Relation to terrorism --- 0
>>>>Relation to original point of thread --- virtually none
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>>>Based on what I'm reading in the paper, I'd say the chance of deportation is a lot higher than 5%. They were told by the INS (which actually is called something else now) to go home and start packing. However, the 60(?)-day delay was seen as a good sign.
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>>>Tamar
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>>The whole deportation proceeding on a 17 year old technicality is so blatantly wrong that I find it difficult to believe that their congressman and senators won't be able to get a special exemption passed. I don't know if it has happened yet but I would expect one TV News story would generate enough publicity so that ignoring it would become politically untenable.