Muslim immigrants on the run head for limbo again.

Byline: Tamara Audi

DETROIT _ It was a strange place to abandon a dream, but Zulfiqar Ahmed had no choice. This is where it was ending, the American life he had imagined, in an icy Dearborn, Mich., parking lot with Friday morning traffic rushing along Michigan Avenue.

His 12-year-old son _ the one who was supposed to become the rich and famous New York heart surgeon _ put the last suitcase in the big white Ford van that would take them to Canada. His daughters _ whose own children would have been born U.S. citizens and one day vote for the most powerful man in the world _ already had their seat belts buckled.

His wife _ the future mistress of a proper home with a yard and big kitchen _ was moving her lips in constant, silent prayer, her eyes red from crying all night.

His cousin _ who wanted a better education for her two young sons _ was saying good-bye to her husband, who would remain in the United States. The husband put his face against the van window to get a last look at his family. He forced a smile, but it did no good. His 2 {-year-old son began to cry and press his hands against the glass to his father's face.

The van driver, a white-haired, 69-year-old retired Detroit mechanic, looked away with watery eyes.

In the last two months, Claude Kilby has driven dozens of Muslim families across the border as they fled to Canada. "Sometimes ... " he started to say, but couldn't finish.

The family's attorney, David Koelsch, whose Saturn was bulging with more children …