News :: Civil & Human Rights	
	Groups Ask U.S. Court to Halt Detention of Visitors by INS. By Jessie Mangaliman
	
		
			30 Dec 2002
		
		Submitted by: Chuck D'Adamo   Publisher: 
The Mercury News (12/25/02)
	 
	
		Several Arab-American and Muslim organizations filed a class-action lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, asking for an immediate stop to the detention of hundreds of legal U.S. visitors who registered in recent weeks as part of a security and monitoring program. The suit accuses the Immigration and Naturalization Service and U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft of illegal arrests. Jessie Mangaliman reports.	
	
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