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   From: bks@panix.com   
      
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    | A federal judge excoriated immigration agents for making   
    | arrests while wearing masks that conceal their identities   
    | in a scathing opinion that references a "regime of secret   
    | policing" and mask-wearing by Ku Klux Klan members.   
    |   
    | Judge Joseph Goodwin of the US District Court for the   
    | Southern District of West Virginia found on Thursday that   
    | US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents violated an   
    | immigrant's constitutional rights when they arrested him in   
    | masks and detained him without a bond hearing.   
    |   
    | The agents' presence--with masks, unmarked cars, and   
    | without badges--is "indistinguishable from lawbreakers,"   
    | and the arrest that followed is "the elimination of   
    | constitutional accountability itself," Goodwin, a Clinton   
    | appointee who's sat on the bench for over three decades,   
    | wrote in a 34-page decision.   
    | ...   
      
      
   The decision:   
      
      
       --bks   
      
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