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Forum urges probe of FBI raids in Puerto Rico
March 3, 2006NEW YORK — Recent tactics of the FBI, which include military-style assaults and home raids on people in Puerto Rico who favor independence — as well as the pepper spraying of journalists — have provoked public...
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Illinois school agency backs immigrant students
March 3, 2006ELMWOOD PARK, Ill. — The school board in this western suburb of Chicago achieved national notoriety last week in a case involving its denial of the right of an immigrant youth to enroll in its high...
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In Texas and California: Demonstrators demand defeat of anti-immigrant bill
March 3, 2006Some 1,500 demonstrators marched from Houston’s Galleria shopping center to Grady Park Feb. 26 in a “March for Dignity and Respect” opposing Rep. James Sensenbrenner’s (R-Wis.) virulently anti-immigrant HR 4437, many provisions of which are included...
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March 3, 2006ST. PAUL, Minn.: ‘Public services not for sale’ Hundreds of state workers, members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), clogged the halls of the State House March 1, lobbying to prevent...
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Key congressional race shaping up in Illinois
March 3, 2006LOMBARD, Ill. — The 6th Congressional District covers the western suburbs of Chicago. With its sprawling housing developments, warehouses, office complexes, light manufacturing plants and endless malls, it has become a national battleground to fill the...
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