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Post 9/11 Civil Liberties
Affirmative Legislative Proposals
Restoring First Amendment Rights
- Prohibit blanket closures of immigration
hearings and prevent secret arrests.
Providing Due Process for Individuals
- Stop the open-ended detention of
non-citizens without charges.
- Ensure all non-citizens have a bond
hearing, unless specially designated by Congress.
- Let immigration judges determine
bond based upon the facts of the case.
- Create an independent court system
for meaningful administrative review.
Law Enforcement Focus on Terrorists,
Not Immigrants
- Terminate NSEERS program and provide
relief to certain classes of individuals adversely affected by
the program.
- Eliminate draconian criminal penalties
for technical violations of registration requirements, and for
simple failure to file change of address forms
- Require that information contained
in the NCIC database adhere to Privacy Act standards
Protecting Privacy and Ensuring
Due Process for Targets of Surveillance
- Affirm constitutional limits on
government’s secret seizures of records and databases.
- Ensure due process for the
targets of secret surveillance.
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For more information, contact the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride
at [email protected]
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Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union
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