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Government

Jul. 1, 2008

ACLU Suit Seeks Records on Immigrant Deaths

The Department of Homeland Security, headed by Secretary Michael Chertoff, “failed to make promptly available the records” despite repeated Freedom of Information Act requests filed one year earlier, according to the ACLU suit.

By Sandra Hernandez
Daily Journal Staff Writer
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      Lawyers for the ACLU have asked a federal judge to force the Bush administration to turn over key records detailing the deaths of immigrants in detention centers.
      The ACLU's National Prison Project filed suit Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging the U.S. Departmen...

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