INS will upgrade its detainees' treatment; it promises lawyers access, end to routine strip searches

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Improvements promised in the rights of thousand of aliens detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service are discussed. Included are assured access to attorneys and no routine strip searches before and after such visits. The number of such detainees has more than doubled in four years.

Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Detention of persons, Detention

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INS fails to see the light; plan to tell detainees about their rights goes nowhere in N.Y

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Reasons for the delays in implementing standards regarding advising detained aliens facing deportation of their right to consult a lawyer are discussed. These standards come in response to a rise in the number of people in INS custody from 8,200 in 1997 to an average of 20,000.

Investigations, Deportation

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U.S. seen as taking a dive in forest suit; Bush pro-wilderness policy is undercut by weak stance in court

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A government challenge to a Clinton era law protecting national forests from logging and from new roads is discussed. This challenge was filed on behalf of the logging and snowmobile industries and environmental activists charged the Bush administration with having been consistently anti-environmental.

Nature Parks and Other Similar Institutions, Wilderness Areas, Cases, Environmental aspects, Lumber industry

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