"He who sacrifices freedom for security is neither free nor secure."
- Green card holders are now required to report address changes within ten days of moving or risk financial penalties, jail or deportation. The plan, using a long-neglected 50-year-old law, would affect 10 million people older than 14 years living in US legally. Indians on H1-B visas, who move often on short-term contracts, now have to be extra diligent about the paper work.
- Under a new snoop-and-snitch initiative, a million volunteers have been sought to report "suspicious" activity under the Terrorist Information and Prevention System. Postal workers, gas and electricity meter readers who have access to the privacy of people's homes were asked to join.
- FBI can now infiltrate mosques, churches, temples, listen in on Internet chat rooms and read message boards without evidence of criminal activity.
- In March, the Justice Department announced its second dragnet plan to question an additional 3,000 individuals of South Asian and Middle Eastern background after the November 2001 campaign to question 5,000 men. Some California police departments refused to cooperate in the interest of community relations.
- Under a new law airport security and screening officials have to be US citizens. Thousands of trained, non-citizen workers, many of them South Asians, lost their jobs this month.
