"US still seeks to deport Pakistani; He was freed after jailing in bomb plot" by Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff | August 11, 2010
A Pakistani man jailed on immigration charges by federal investigators probing the May 1 attempted bombing in Times Square has returned to his Watertown home and will remain free as he fights deportation.
Related: Immigration Incarceration
And here the AmeriKan MSM is bitching about some British banker.
Pir D. Khan was released from the Plymouth County jail July 29 because he was no longer considered a flight risk, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said yesterday. Khan, a 43-year-old taxi driver, was one of three New England men arrested in dramatic early morning raids two weeks after the botched attack.
“Mr. Khan had nothing to do with the [attempted] Times Square bombing,’’ Khan’s lawyer, Saher J. Macarius of Framingham, said after a hearing yesterday in US Immigration Court. “They are releasing him because he is not dangerous to the community and he is not a flight risk. They finally did the right thing, but they did it quietly.’’
Government officials told an immigration judge that they will continue their efforts to deport Khan, however, because he entered the United States illegally through Mexico in the summer 1991....
Pakistan’s consul general in Boston, Barry Hoffman, who had criticized the government for keeping Khan in maximum security at the jail, said yesterday, “I think they found out they had nothing on him and they let him go. . . . At least the American justice system works.’’
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Macarius said he will argue that Khan deserves to stay in the United States because he has been an upstanding citizen with no criminal record and because his deportation would cause extreme hardship for his wife of nearly two years....
Yeah, those are the guys we want to deport; let's keep the illegals that are criminals, murderers, rapists, drug-dealers, etc.
He is a MARRIED(?) CAB DRIVER for God's sake!!
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One down, two to go:
"Court to free a 2d suspect from N.E. in N.Y. bomb case; Watertown man is still being held" by Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff | August 25, 2010
The second of three New England suspects arrested on immigration charges in connection with the failed Times Square bombing is expected to be released today. That would leave Aftab Ali Khan of Watertown as the only regional suspect still in custody for immigration violations in the case....
Related: Times Square Ball Dropped in Maine
Rahman’s wife, Sara Rahman, attended the hearing yesterday and later met her husband in the hallway, giving him a tight hug that brought a smile to his face.
Another MARRIED "terrorist," huh?
“Maybe now we can get on with our lives,’’ she said....
Somehow I don't think it is over yet.
Rahman came to the United States in 1999 on a specialty occupation visa that allowed him to work as a computer programmer, but that visa expired five years later and he has been staying in this country illegally since. He married Sara Boutet in March, after dating for two years. Rahman filed an I-130 petition last June with US Citizenship and Immigration Services, seeking to stay in the country based on his marriage to an American.
I must say, he SEEMS LIKE a GOOD MAN!!
Pir D. Khan, 43, was released from the Plymouth County jail on July 29 because he was no longer considered a flight risk, and has returned to his Watertown apartment. But federal immigration officials said they will continue their efforts to deport Khan, who has been married to an American woman for three years, because he entered the United States illegally through Mexico in the summer of 1991. He worked as a taxi driver, but Boston police — after learning of his immigration status — revoked his hackney license.
How ARBITRARY of THIS GOVERNMENT!
Related: Obama Administration to Ignore Immigration Enforcement
Yeah, send the GOOD ONES BACK!
Khan shared his Watertown apartment with his cousin, Aftab, who was transferred from New England in June to a detention center in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was called as a witness before a federal grand jury investigating the botched May 1 attack.
Saher J. Macarius, the lawyer for the Khans, said in a telephone interview yesterday that Aftab Ali Khan was taken to New York by US Marshals to testify to a grand jury investigating the bombing attempt, but that he has not been used yet as a witness. “They’re not telling us anything, not giving us any reason why he continues to be held there.’’
The arrests in New England were part of a series of raids in half a dozen locations in the Northeast, including on Long Island and in New Jersey, but no other individuals were taken into custody, according to federal immigration spokesman Ross Feinstein, based in Washington, D.C.
--more--"Related: The Terrorist Next Door
Sunday Visit With the Neighbors Next Door
Also see: Patsies From Pakistan Preparing For Attack on AmeriKa
