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ACLU Fights Federal Immigration Raids

Raids2_1 More immigration raids in California yesterday. To date, the federal government's Operation Return to Sender has arrested an estimated 18,000 suspected illegal immigrants nationwide. This time, 30 people were rounded up in San Rafael, in wealthy Marin County.

Also yesterday, the ACLU, the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights and a Bay Area newspaper demanded government documents to verify reports of "abusive tactics that may violate people's rights," as one ACLU attorney put it. Protesters stood outside the a federal building in San Francisco recently to protest the raids (pictured.)

UPDATE: Forum schedule for tonight in Hollywood on immigration and the media. Event includes Jon Fleischman, GOP blogger, Steve Gregory of KFI, and Daniel Hernandez of L.A. Weekly.

(Photo: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)

Mar 08, 2007 in immigration |

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Robert Salladay
Robert Salladay has covered California governors and state politics for 10 years. He has worked for the Oakland Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Capitol bureaus of the S.F. Chronicle and L.A. Times. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley in history and Northwestern University in journalism. He covered the election of Gray Davis (twice), the 2000 Florida presidential recount, the 2003 recall and the Schwarzenegger administration. A native of Sacramento, he has lived in San Francisco, Oakland, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Chesapeake, Va.
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