US: Immigrants may be held indefinitely

[madokie]

Next it will be us.

By MATT APUZZO

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061114/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/detainees_lawsuits


WASHINGTON - Immigrants arrested in the United States may be held indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism and may not challenge their imprisonment in civilian courts, the Bush administration said Monday, opening a new legal front in the fight over the rights of detainees.

In court documents filed with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., the Justice Department said a new anti-terrorism law being used to hold detainees in Guantanamo Bay also applies to foreigners captured and held in the United States.

Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, a citizen of Qatar, was arrested in 2001 while studying in the United States. He has been labeled an "enemy combatant," a designation that, under a law signed last month, strips foreigners of the right to challenge their detention in federal courts.

That law is being used to argue the Guantanamo Bay cases, but Al-Marri represents the first detainee inside the United States to come under the new law. Aliens normally have the right to contest their imprisonment, such as when they are arrested on immigration violations or for other crimes.

[O.M.B.inOhio]

1. Thanks, Justice Dept. Now what about the Jews, Gypies, and homosexuals?

But at least now there is some hope that America's flirtation with fascism may end soon.

[Skittles]

2. you forgot the disabled

:(

[countryjake]

3. and the leftists!

:evilgrin:

[tpsbmam]

4. It already is us

Jose Padilla. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Shrub's right to hold him indefinitely without charges being brought.

There's no next here -- we're at that point and have been for awhile.