Edited by author 10-08-2004 10:31 AM
The fact that some presumably innocent people aren't permitted to enter the U.S. is a nuisance, but I'd call it a cautious nuisance, and a necessary one. Your examples (only one of which I could access without submitting to a profile!) seems to be about keeping people out. It's not the same as when countries lock people in. The general solution might even be better data mining/profiling.

But it looks like we did pretty good on this one. Your article talks about Abhoud Syed Lingga, and calls him the "executive director of the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies in Cotabato City and chair of the Bangsamoro People's Consultative Assembly." But a Google search finds that he's also the "former secretary-general of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF)" -- and that's a terrorist group.


Okay, a correction: The MILF is the terrorist group, and the MNLF was more cooperative. But my original point still stands. We have to be cautious about who we let in.