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Supreme Court Considers Due-Process Rights of Criminal and Terrorist Aliens

by Ken Klukowski Members of the Supreme Court are considering arguments about the fate of foreigners who commit crimes or are suspected of terrorist acts and are facing deportation. The justices will decide whether the Constitution requires that such suspects must instead be released into the general public while court proceedings are ongoing unless the federal government can present enough evidence to prove how dangerous they are. For decades, the Immigration and Nationality Act passed by Congress requires that when a foreigner attempts to cross the U.S. border, federal agents shall detain that alien unless he is “beyond a doubt”… View Article