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Immigration Enforcement and Human Rights
US immigration enforcement has created a network of secret prisons where detainees are deprived of legal rights and adequate medical care. That's according to a lengthy series in the Washington Post. Also, the California Supreme Court rules on gay marriage, and President Bush denounces "appeasers." Did he mean Barack Obama?
By Warren Olney • • 1h 0m ListenUS immigration enforcement has created a network of secret prisons where detainees are deprived of legal rights and adequate medical care. That's according to a lengthy series in the Washington Post. We hear from one of the writers and from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which says the reports are based on "myths," rather than "facts." Also, the California Supreme Court rules on gay marriage, and what President Bush told the Israeli Knesset today. Barack Obama calls it "a false political attack" on him.
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3 storiesGay Marriage Legal in California
A sharply divided California State Supreme Court today legalized same-sex marriage in the biggest state in the Union. The 4-to-3 majority opinion was written by Chief Justice Ron George, a Republican appointed by a Republican governor, Pete Wilson, in 1991. Jennifer Rothman is an associate professor of law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
Read the story6 minAre Immigrants Dying in US Prisons for Lack of Decent Healthcare?
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has rounded up and detained increasing numbers of undocumented people in the past five years.
Read the story34 minObama Defends Talking to Rogue Nations
In a speech to Israel's Knesset today, President Bush denounced those he described as believing "that we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals." The White House says Bush's comments were not an attack on Barack Obama , who has advocated negotiations with Iran and Syria. Obama and other Democrats think otherwise.
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