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Immigration

Nov. 3, 2009

Restoring and Rebuilding Rights

Thomas E. Perez, the new head of the U.S. Justice Department's civil rights division, talks about redistricting, immigration and rebuilding a unit roiled by controversy.

Thomas E. Perez recently was sworn in as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. The son of Dominican immigrants, Perez spent more than a decade at the Department of Justice working on high profile civil rights cases, including the prosecution of white supremacists who went on a deadly crime spree against African Americans in Texas. And he was involved in the case of 72 Thai immigrants who were held as slave labo...

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