Living in fear of the U.S. government.
Just days after the April 25 deadline passed for Egyptian men to voluntarily register, Ali received a congratulatory letter from the State Department. He had been randomly selected in a computer-generated lottery drawing to apply for a diversity visa, which makes permanent residence visas available to 50,000 immigrants each year.....
After hours of interviews, he was asked to return the next day. He was interviewed hours more, then arrested and detained in jail for six days before a friend was able to scrape together the $1,500 needed to post bond.
"I thought I was doing the right thing, and I don't have a criminal record, so I thought I was going to be OK," Ali said one afternoon last month after he was released. "Maybe I made a mistake, because it seems that as long as you stay in the shadows, they will not get you."