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We welcome our readers' contributions via letters to the Editor, Featured Articles. Sharing your thoughts with other Immigration Daily readers helps to raise important issues, allows for the exchange of ideas, and creates a rich forum of viewpoints and opinions. Our classifieds section is another component of our community. In today's Immigration Daily, we feature a letter to the Editor from Bruce Hake providing thoughtful comments on the Sobig.F virus outbreak, two Featured Articles, and three classfied ads. We encourage our readers to continue to submit their letters to the Editor and articles to editor@ilw.com.
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Hurtling (and Hurting) Down the H-1B Road: Part 2 of 4
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BALCA Says Experience Gained With Employer Overseas Cannot Be Used To Qualify The Alien
In the Matter of Facunla Family Home, No. 2003-INA-5 (BALCA, Aug. 15, 2003), the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals said that since the Aliens obtained experience in the Employer's own facilities in the Phillipines, the Employer could not require US workers to have equivalent experience.
BCIS Issues Burundi TPS FAQs
The Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services released a press release and FAQs on the extension of TPS for Nationals of Burundi.
BCIS Issues Sierra Leone TPS FAQs
The Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services released a press release and FAQs on the extension of TPS for Nationals of Sierra Leone.
BCIS Reminds El Salvadorans To Re-register For TPS
The Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services reminded eligible Salvadorans to immediately re-register for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to maintain TPS and employment authorization for the 18-month period beginning on September 9, 2003 and ending on March 9, 2005.
Continued Detention Authorized Where Alien Fails To Cooperate In Securing Travel Documents
In Lema v. INS, No. 02-35901 (9th Cir. Sept. 2, 2003), the court said that "consistent with Zadvydas and Pelich, when an alien refuses to cooperate fully and honestly with officials to secure travel documents from a foreign government, the alien cannot meet his or her burden to show there is no significant likelihood of removal in the reasonably foreseeable future."
No Evidence Offered To Support Forced Abortion After 15 Months Of Pregnancy
In Shi v. Ashcroft, No. 02-4206 (2nd Cir. Sept. 4, 2003), the court said that Petitioner, a national of the People's Republic of China, offered no medical or other evidence to support the claim that his wife was forcibly coerced to undergo an abortion after 15 months after conception.
Sen. Kerry Supports Legalizaton Of Undocumented
The Albuquerque Tribune reports that Sen. Kerry (D-MA) said, "Anyone who has been in this country for five or six years, who's paid their taxes, who has stayed out of trouble, ought to be able to translate into an American citizen immediately."
Is Schwarzenegger Anti-Immigrant?
A Wall Street Journal op-ed writes "California's Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante is now a desperate candidate making audacious claims. Mr. Bustamante, the only major Democrat running to replace Gray Davis as governor, is accusing Arnold Schwarzenegger of being anti-immigrant."
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Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor:
Thank you for your recent editorial on "Immigration Law Firms And The
Virus Attack." The Sobif.F spam/worm/virus, which is still raging and
expanding,
is by far the most serious threat I've ever seen to my own small law firm,
which greatly relies on email. It seems obvious to me that at least one
computer at an immigration law firm was compromised, because I got
thousands and thousands of copies of the virus that purported to be
from many prominent immigration lawyers, from ILW.COM, and from US
immigration agencies.
At one point I was marking for deletion hundreds
of copies of the virus, including five that purported to be from the
Vermont Service Center Premium Processing Unit. Only at the last
moment, as I was about to hit the delete key, I noticed that one of
those emails from the VSC Premium Processing Unit was a genuine
approval notice. Working with a security consultant, I seem to have
mainly blocked this current plague. But it was expensive. And I'm
very worried about future mutations. As has been widely reported,
the Sobif.F monster self-destructs on September 10. What comes on
September 11?
You missed one chilling detail in your editorial. Nowadays, you
don't need to click on an attachment to have a worm/virus turn your
computer into a frenzied spam-sending zombie. Many such malware
programs (some called "adware" and "spyware") will infect your
computer invisibly if you simply click on ads on web sites. I've
seen estimates that more than 50 percent of the Windows computers
in the world have some level of infection, even if antivirus software
is running. Moreover, some viruses will be loaded if you simply
open an email, without clicking on anything. I run extensive, multiple
levels of security, and I'm hypersensitive about "safe computing,"
and in the midst of fixing up the Sobif.F damage to my mail server
I discovered numerous viruses on my own network. And I run a
mainly Linux network. I'll bet that at least one-third of the readers of
Immigration Daily have computers that are already infected with
multiple viruses. Be aware that even the best antivirus software
programs are unable to detect or disable a large proportion of the
malware epidemic. Be skeptical about all the claims from antivirus
firms.
One other thing. I'm still getting hundreds of emails from
mail servers (many at major law firms) mailing me back copies of
the Sobig.F virus and claiming that I sent it. This is an example of
extreme stupidity by system administrators. Such "bounces" flood
the net, waste expensive bandwidth at both ends, and continue to
propagate the virus. The mail servers should be reconfigured to
just "silently drop" any infected messages (in Linux speak, send 'em
to /dev/null). I'm not a Linux expert by any means, but I was able
to figure out how to do that on my own network in just a few
minutes.
I hate to say this. But I think the writing's on the wall. I think
there is a serious risk that email as we know it is going to be
dead within a year. I plan to brush up on my telephone skills.
Bruce A. Hake
Damascus, Maryland
Editor's Notes: (1) We believe that multiple computers at multiple immigration law firms have been compromised. (2) It is possible to be infected at the operating system level without using email at all, that is how the Blaster virus spread and that is why frequent patching is now necessary. (3) In some programs like Outlook Express, visual basic scripts may infect computers if the preview pane is turned on, so in addition to not opening attachments, it may be advisable to not use the preview function.
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