Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 16:49:46 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200002082149.QAA00732@mattababy.mit.edu>
From: belmonte@mit.edu (Matthew Belmonte)
To: CapuanoHR8@aol.com
Subject: support HR 2121

Dear Representative Capuano

I write in order to urge your support for HR 2121, the Secret Evidence Repeal
Act.  This bill would ban the use of secret evidence in authorising the 
detention of otherwise legal immigrants.  Currently, about two dozen people are
being held in American prisons solely on the basis of evidence that neither
they or their lawyers have been able to review and dispute. This completely
un-American process was authorized in 1996 as part of a wave of anti-immigrant
hysteria.  Immigrants should have the same right as United States citizens and
residents to be confronted with any evidence against them.