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Rafe points to this alarming article concerning John Ashcroft's decision to overrule a panel of judges and instead proclaim that illegal aliens can be detained indefinitely even if they're acknowledged to pose no threat to national security. The immigrant in question was a Haitian asylum seeker, and Ashcroft acknowledged that he wasn't a danger to the US -- but overruled the judges anyway on the grounds that dealing with illegal aliens in general was proving a strain on resources. He also questioned whether asylum seekers had due process rights.
| posted by Alex at 10:52 AM