Mass INS Arrests Also in Cleveland and Houston
Bob at Politics in the Zeros reports that the mass INS arrests are not just happening in LA, but in Houston and Cleveland as well. He's got the whole story.
The ACLU says that Ashcroft's immigrant registration program is merely a pretext for mass detentions. Many of the arrested are not being allowed calls to lawyers and lawyers are being refused information on their client's whereabouts."Given the evidence, there is no alarmism in saying this is a round-up," said Lucas Guttentag, Director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. "Attorney General Ashcroft is using the immigrant registration program to lock up people who already have provided extensive information as part of their green card applications," he said. "Therefore the purpose is clearly not to get information but rather to selectively arrest, detain and deport Middle Eastern and Muslim men in the United States."
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