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“When you’ve got a Black family in Los Angeles in the 1960s and it has nothing to do with civil rights, it has nothing to do with oppression.”

Civil rights organizations had criticized her appointment by President Trump and Senate confirmation this month to head the division.

As a young immigration lawyer in California’s Central Valley, Matthew Barragan cut his teeth defending the rights of indigent workers facing deportation.

On Wednesday, Mr Adams, under questioning from his own legal team, spoke about the outset of the Northern Ireland Troubles, when "the entire situation moved from a civil rights struggle to a conflict situation".

Lawyers for Harvard argue the government violated the university's constitutional rights and federal funding was being used as "leverage to gain control of academic decision making" on campus.