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Citizens Charge They Were Detained in Migrant Sweep
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A civil rights group sued the federal government Wednesday on behalf of five Latino U.S. citizens who say they were detained and harassed by agents carrying out raids targeting illegal immigrants in south Georgia. The Southern Poverty Law Center said that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents used 'Gestapo-like' tactics as they fanned across three Georgia counties in September, breaking into homes and stopping people in their cars because they looked 'Mexican.' (Los Angeles Times [1], Thursday)
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Liberty and Privacy: Connections [2] by Joseph S. Fulda
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[1] Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-raid2nov02,1,4101534.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
[2] Liberty and Privacy: Connections: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=4709
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