<p>If, like his brother, he is wired with explosives, he will not be taken alive. We want him alive, so he can give some “reason” (which will be banal and incomprehensible). The “false flag” crew will have a field day otherwise. </p>
<p>I tell myself that once upon a time, he was someone’s little boy. With a bright future. And that woman has my sympathy. Him, not so much. The immigration laws are about to receive the same once-over that guns did after Newtown. I imagine the NRA feels they’ve hit the jackpot this week.</p>
<p>I’ve noticed that they’ve kept the reporters really far away from anything of interest, so they could easily have something else happen without us all finding out right away. In this case, I absolutely support the police in whatever they need to do over our ability to hear every rumor immediately, although I’d like to know quickly when and if they catch him so I can breath a sigh of relief. The police need some room to work and we don’t know the details of what they’re doing and who they are questioning right now.</p>
<p>The uncle is outraged, frightened, shamed, humiliated and everything else that comes with being put on the spot like that. It would have been more gracious for him to just say that he was sorry about what happened,horrified by the event, and even more horrified that those he knew, were related to him were involved and leave it at that. He had nothing useful to say, as I feel what he said was pure reaction and trying to be as much distance between his nephews and himself. </p>
<p>I do hope the catch the young man on the run alive and get some information out of him. I don’t believe the two brothers operated all on their own in this, and it would be more valuable to find anyone else involved and get a better idea of what is going on here. Maybe he won’t talk. But if he’s dead, he certainly cannot.</p>
<p>Agree that the enforcement of our immigraton laws are sloppy at best. I read online (don’t know if the source is reliable. It’s Judicial Watch), that the older brother had a domestic violence conviction and could have been deported. But obviously was not.</p>
<p>Maybe that’s why the uncle called him a loser. The press did not ask him why he made that statement.</p>
<p>The “refugee” immigration policies and the so-called “green card lottery” need to be seriously revised. As I recall, there was some movement to abandon the latter in favor of issuing more work visas for foreign graduate students who want to work in the US after getting their PhDs. I keep thinking about the BU graduate student from China who was brutally killed by one of the explosions.</p>
<p>I don’t think our immigration laws are to blame for this. Regardless of how strict we are, some will slip into this country ,and it doesn’t much matter if they got in here legally or not. They were here, they lived what seemed to be pretty normal lives. What the heck happened here? The older brother who is dead was back in Russia (?) or what ever that region is now called for 6 months last year. What he was doing there, and if it has any relationship to this is a question to be investigated.</p>
<p>Yes, I think they are keeping them that far away because of all of the explosives, but I’m sure having some extra space to work would not hurt, either.</p>
<p>Just realized I am wearing my “Boston” warm-up jacket again today, as I and many others wore running or Boston regalia Tuesday in solidarity. Who could have predicted at the beginning of the week what the rest of the week would bring? </p>
<p>Earlier last night the media said the police arrested a naked guy and another one. Does anyone have story about these two guys now. I watched TV this morning and did not see explanation.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think it’s for the reporter’s safety, I’m just saying it means we might be a bit less informed of every development. A lot of guesswork by the reporters. And I think us being less informed at this moment is not a bad thing for the police – they are making sure we know what we need to.</p>
<p>Sounds like they’re thinking the remaining suspect may be injured. One can only hope.</p>
<p>The green card lottery has provisions that are already designed to favor people with advanced degree and exceptional skill like PhD education. Plus there is H1B visas that fast track these people into the work force without going through a lot of waiting periods like the green card process.</p>
<p>They did say that the MIT policeman was about to become a Somerville policeman and made it sound like a major promotion. Many campus police are not armed although I don’t know about MIT in particular.</p>
<p>The naked person was simply a local resident who went outside when they shouldn’t have, was seen by the police, and was ordered to take their clothing off – presumably to make sure they didn’t have any bombs strapped to their body – and lie down in the street. He or she was later released.</p>
<p>Wrong. To be admitted as a green card lottery winner, all you have to have is a HS diploma, no advanced degrees needed. That, and a job in the US or some sort of sponsorship. Ages ago, even sponsorship was not required - the provision was added later on to reduce the public burden, because many of the winners ended up using governmental assistance programs.</p>
<p>"Wrong. To be admitted as a green card lottery winner, all you have to have is a HS diploma, no advanced degrees needed. That, and a job in the US or some sort of sponsorship. "</p>
<p>I am talking about the sponsorship provision. There are categories and quotas for immediate family, but there is a separate category for job sponsorship that is used a lot on highly educated individuals for immigration. That is a preferential category that favors the educated applicant. And that is on top of the separate H1B visas program that provides many hundreds of thousands more slots per year used by mostly highly educated immigrants.</p>