"Foreign citizens who change planes at airports in the United States can legally be seized, detained without charges, deprived of access to a lawyer or the courts, and even denied basic necessities like food, lawyers for the government said in Brooklyn federal court yesterday."
Look, 1) this is the government’s position, and, if you accept the view of Padilla, only one District Court with proper jurisdiction has held otherwise; and 2) there is no evidence that this has been done systemically.
ReplyDeleteAlso, context is lacking. In what case did they say this. I didn’t think that there were any EC cases pending in EDNY. Or is this the Syrian 1983 case ?