A Comment on Material Support to Terrorists

The New York Times on April 3, 2006 ran an editorial entitled “Terrorists or Victims?”  It begins,

In Sierra Leone there is a woman who was kept captive in her house for four days by guerrillas. The rebels raped her and her daughter and cut them with machetes. Under America’s program to resettle refugees, she would be eligible to come to safety in the United States. But her application for refuge has been put on indefinite hold – because American law says that she provided “material support” to terrorists by giving them shelter.

For the rest of the op/ed, check out the NY Times website.

The editorial raises important issues about the broad definition of “terrorist activity” in the current U.S. immigration laws.

KJ