In the moments after the attack anything seemed reasonable; anything the agencies of law enforcement and justice could do to ensure the nation's safety. In towns and cities all over the nation, people were picked up and spirited off to detention centers.
Many of them, perhaps as many as 500 are still being held on charges ranging from expired visas to unpaid speeding tickets. Attorney General John Ashcroft has pushed a package of tough new anti-terrorism laws that would give the government new powers. But while House and Senate lawmakers work out compromise packages, what's ahead for the people who are still locked up, and how is the United States altering its historical call to send us your tired, your poor your huddled masses?
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Barbara Bradley, National Public Radio correspondent
David Cole, Professor of Law at Georgetown University
Paul Virtue, Counsel for the D.C. law firm Hogan and Hartson
Gerald Goldstein, attorney representing an immigrant detainee.
