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  • Tinkering with Patriot Act simply isnt enough

    Tinkering with Patriot Act simply isnt enough

    July 22, 2005

    News Analysis Congress is taking up the renewal of various provisions of the USA Patriot Act amid persistent concerns about the law’s antidemocratic character and sweeping reach. These concerns were no doubt heightened by last week’s...

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  • Immigrant rights are civil rights, meeting says

    Immigrant rights are civil rights, meeting says

    July 22, 2005

    OAKLAND, Calif. — Calling the movement for immigration reform a “new civil rights movement of the 21st century,” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) electrified participants in a labor and community conference here July 16 as she...

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  • L.A. in turmoil over police shooting of toddler

    L.A. in turmoil over police shooting of toddler

    July 22, 2005

    NewsAnalysis LOS ANGELES — The shooting death of 19-month-old Susie Marie Lopez by Los Angeles police officers July 10 in Watts could prove to be not only a legal and public relations problem for the Los...

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  • Immigration agents impersonate OSHA officers

    Immigration agents impersonate OSHA officers

    July 22, 2005

    Commentary Forty-eight immigrant workers were doing their best to follow the law when they showed up at what they were told was a mandatory OSHA training at their job site in Goldsboro, N.C. The immigrants, from...

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  • Rove: out of White House, into jail?

    Rove: out of White House, into jail?

    July 22, 2005

    WASHINGTON — It is an open question whether Karl Rove, deputy White House chief of staff, will keep out of jail, given the flood of evidence that he broke the law in identifying covert CIA operative...

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