c'mon, guys... lighten up!
it was a bad joke considering that somebody might have actually taken it seriously and would have been thrown in a tizzy, but most of us would have known what it was - its dateline should have given it away, if not the absurdity of its content.
i have to say somebody very cleverly wove their little tale around the fears of conservative america, and i wouldn't be surprised if they were a liberal, if not an actual muslim. (read the lines: "It is for the security of our country and for the protection of God-fearing American citizens..." and "Sometimes countries blow American stuff up, and then a whole bunch of people get deported...")
worse april fools' jokes have been played. actually, this was rather a clever one, and i had a belly laugh when i read it.
take it in your stride.