Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 05:35:50 -0400
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: Indefinite Detention Comes to America
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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 04:32:53 -0400
From: Paul Spirito <berezina@nihidyll.com>
Subject: Indefinite Detention Comes to America &c.
Organization: Nihidyll

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/19/national/19CIVI.html

 By PHILIP SHENON and ROBIN TONER

 WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 ’ The Bush administration today
 announced a major expansion of its power to detain
 immigrants suspected of crimes, including new rules prompted
 by last week's terrorist attacks that would allow legal
 immigrants to be detained indefinitely during a national
 emergency.

 [...]

 Mr. Halperin was one of the organizers of a coalition of
 groups, as varied as the American Civil Liberties Union and
 Americans for Tax Reform, that met for the first time on
 Friday. That coalition, informally known as the In Defense
 of Freedom Coalition, has scheduled a news conference for
 Thursday to declare its concerns. At the moment, many of
 these groups are demanding that the administration's
 proposals be the subject of open debate and orderly
 consideration.

 Grover Norquist, the influential conservative strategist who
 heads Americans for Tax Reform, said, "I've heard some
 politicians say we need to pass this this week ’ that's code
 for, if anybody read it, it wouldn't pass."

 [...]


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