National Desk
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WASHINGTON
CONGRESS DEBATES RIGHTS OF TERROR SUSPECTS HELD AT GUANTANAMO
A senior Republican, Senator Specter, urged Congress yesterday to clarify prisoners’ rights at Guantanamo Bay, decrying a “crazy quilt” of legal decisions about the military’s handling of suspected terrorists. Other Republicans on Mr. Specter’s Judiciary Committee were divided over whether the Bush administration’s practices were satisfactory. Military officers and Justice Department officials defended the treatment of suspects at the detention center on a U.S. Navy base in Cuba.
– Associated Press
SENATE GIVES SUPPORT TO ETHANOL PROVISION IN ENERGY BILL
The Senate stuck by a plan to require nationwide use of ethanol in gasoline, although opponents argued that the additive will increase gasoline prices in regions outside the farm belt where most ethanol is produced. An amendment by Senator Schumer, a Democrat in New York, that would have kept the measure out of a broad energy bill was rejected 69-28 yesterday. The ethanol provision, which requires refiners to use 8 billion gallons of ethanol a year, was then approved, 70-26, making it a part of a broad energy bill that Senate leaders hoped to complete in the next few weeks.
– Associated Press
NORTHEAST
NEARLY 200 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED ACROSS NEW ENGLAND
Nearly 200 illegal immigrants who were ordered deported for committing crimes were arrested during a six-day undercover sweep across New England, federal authorities said. Dozens of federal, state, and local law-enforcement officers began a search Friday for the roughly 200 people targeted in the sweep; by yesterday afternoon, they had arrested at least 187 illegal immigrants. The operation is believed to be the largest of its kind staged by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement regional field office, said Bruce Chadbourne, ICE’s New England field director. Those arrested had served time in prison or jail for a wide range of crimes, including attempted murder, rape, child molestation, and arson, authorities said.
– Associated Press
