... Ashcroft has been an outspoken ringleader in the passing and perpetuation of recent anti-immigration legislation. As a heading for his new US Department of Justice website, www.lifeandliberty.gov, Ashcroft quotes the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that ... is on the idea of electronic surveillance. Many Americans, last decade, would agree that the government did not have the right to hold innocent people under surveillance as it is a direct viol...

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