"US Circuit Judge Joseph F Bianco warned that the government's reading would send a seismic shock through our immigration detention system and society, straining already overcrowded facilities, separating families and disrupting communities."
"Bianco stated that the administration's interpretation defies the statute's context, structure, history, and purpose and contradicts longstanding executive branch practice."
"The Department of Homeland Security's position that non-citizens already living in the US qualify as applicants for admission and are subject to mandatory detention was a significant departure from previous interpretations."
A federal appeals court ruled against the Trump administration's mandatory detention policy for immigrants, stating it misinterpreted a decades-old immigration law. The court found that the administration's interpretation was incorrect and warned it could severely impact the immigration detention system, leading to overcrowding and family separations. The ruling emphasized that the government's reading contradicted the law's context and longstanding practices. The Department of Homeland Security's stance that long-term residents qualify as applicants for admission was also rejected, as it denied bond hearings to many immigrants without criminal records.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]