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To: Liz
FFR: Has the government operated with a "double standard" since September 11, 2001, that is, denying immigrants the civil liberties and constitutional protections that citizens enjoy?

This softball reminds me of interviewers' questions to ahtletes after big wins. "Andy, tell us how important this win was to you.... Andy, how did this win make you feel?"

Only citizens are supposed to enjoy civil liberties and rights. Heck, that's right in the definition of "civil rights." (As Casey would say, "You could look it up.") This has nothing to do with security; it's the de facto granting to foreigners of non-existent civil rights, which has been a scandal.

13 posted on 10/21/2003 2:18:58 PM PDT by mrustow (no tag)
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To: mrustow
Only citizens are supposed to enjoy civil liberties and rights.

Not in the United States of Amercia, which was founded on the following premise:

... that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights...

17 posted on 10/21/2003 3:02:02 PM PDT by tarator
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