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Tonight: Night of 1000 Conversations
Editor's Note: Tonight in cities across the United States, immigrant rights activists are encouraging people to gather in homes, offices, coffee shops and places of worship to talk about how to restore human rights and due process protections to the legal system. Margaret Huang is executive director of the Rights Working Group. Immigration Matters regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates.
The house of a U.S. citizen was invaded at 6:00 am by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents without a warrant. The agents rounded up parents and children at gunpoint; they were looking for an immigrant who had never lived in that house.
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The Night of 1000 Conversations will also be the kickoff for a new campaign that the Rights Working Group will formally launch later this summer to Hold DHS Accountable. Working with allies such as the Detention Watch Network and the Fair Immigration Reform Movement and our member organizations, Rights Working Group is developing a campaign plan that will ask DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff to end immigration raids that lock up people without due process; stop inhumane detention conditions and arbitrary jailing without trial; and provide fair and efficient mechanisms to end the backlog in processing citizenship applications by September 2008.
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