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Chertoff Letter Regarding Hurricane Evacuations

Date: May 22, 2008
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Topics: Civil Rights and Justice, Immigration

Summary

This letter, written to Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security by the leaders of the nation’s major Latino and Asian American civil rights organizations in reaction to to reports that the Border Patrol will check the documents of residents of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas in the event of a hurricane evacuation before they are allowed to board evacuation buses.


 

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