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US judge orders government to release Iraqis or grant bond hearings
2018-01-04
[ARABNEWS] A US judge ordered the government on Tuesday to either release Iraqi immigrants colonists it incarcerated
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
last year or grant them bond hearings, in the latest judicial curb on the Trump administration’s efforts to tighten US immigration.

Last year the federal government detained hundreds of Iraqi immigrants colonists who had been ordered deported years ago due to criminal convictions. Iraq until recently had refused to take them back, but struck a deal with the US in March to repatriate its citizens, sparking the immigration sweeps.

The Iraqis and civil rights groups representing them sued the federal government. US District Judge Mark Goldsmith, in bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
, had previously halted the deportation of the Iraqis, many of whom are Christian, who argued they would face persecution if they were sent back to Iraq.

In his ruling on Tuesday, Goldsmith said that any of the Iraqis held for six months or longer must either be released or granted a bond hearing before an immigration judge within 30 days.

"Our legal tradition rejects warehousing human beings while their legal rights are being determined," wrote Goldsmith.

The Trump administration has tried to deport the Iraqis as part of its push to increase immigration enforcement and make countries, which have resisted in the past, take back nationals ordered deported from the US.

Since June, immigration enforcement officers have detained approximately 300 Iraqi nationals with final deportation orders, according to information provided to the court by the Iraqis’ lawyers. There are approximately 1,400 Iraqis in the US with final deportation orders.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Last year the federal government detained hundreds of Iraqi immigrants colonists who had been ordered deported years ago due to criminal convictions.

The admin is all done. Another prince decides not to uphold the law because of 'feelings'.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-01-04 08:45  

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