Note from the editor.

The invasion began as we started work on this issue and now, as we go to press, Bush is declaring the war in Iraq is over. This issue's cover stories attempt to connect the war doctrine with U.S. aggression toward targets within its borders--among them racially scape-goated immigrants, political dissent, and the Bill of Rights.

April 25 marked the last deadline of "special registration," this one for immigrants from Bangladesh, Jordan, Egypt, Indonesia, and Kuwait. In San Francisco, a small band of protesters held vigil outside the renamed Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services building. That morning, the line snaked around the block--the policy called for immigrants from 25 countries to turn themselves in to immigration authorities for tracking. Hundreds have been detained as a result of coming forward. Thousands more have left in an exodus that remains largely invisible to most of the country, fixated on terror alerts and embedded TV footage.

As residents of the "homeland," we are all complicit and culpable if we ...