Thursday, January 13, 2005

Supreme Court limits immigrant detentions / [USA] MSNBC, 12 Jan 2005

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6817694/
"The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the government may not indefinitely imprison immigrants who had been in the United States illegally for years and could not be deported to their home countries.
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The court?s 7-to-2 ruling was a defeat for the Justice Department, which said the issue affected more than 2,000 detained immigrants who cannot be deported. "