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Immigrants Fire Back at Xenophobic Campaign*

*In Germany

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 10, 2008 11:57 AM CST

(Newser) – Germany’s immigrants are fed up with Roland Koch, whose bid for reelection as governor of the state of Hesse is exacerbating racial tensions, Der Spiegel reports. Koch seized upon a December subway beating to blast "criminal young foreigners," and the rhetoric quickly... Read full story »

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