U.S. to doctor: Thanks for your help, now leave

"When hundreds of injured New York City firefighters, policemen and other victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks inundated NYU Downtown Hospital, Anuj Handa joined other physicians who rushed to their aid. But neither that act in the nation's dark hour nor the three years he spent helping homeless children in the Bronx spared Handa, a British citizen, from being arrested and held in detention in Seattle for overstaying a visa. "

Listen, all you foreigners out there. If you can't be bothered to attend to the letter of the law, for G** sake, get a good immigration lawyer. Do you really want to be trusting to the good will of the overworked underpaid border guards of a nation that's been targetted by terrorists?

"'It just slipped my mind,' Handa said. 'It didn't occur to me until I was driving up to Vancouver -- I was looking at my card, and it said March 2.'"

Thanks to my wife for the link.